AT&T's towers are already inoperable when "working."

You're right, in Southern California it doesn't make any sense to pick AT&T's lack of cell coverage, spotty 3G service and inflated prices over another carrier. iPhone is a great device, no doubt, but AT&T is easily the worst carrier, at least where I am.

I would've had an iPhone last year if not for AT&T. But I pay half of what I would with the iPhone plan, so I'm glad they made it an easy choice by sucking so badly.

I had 2 discountable SERO plans, paying less than $20 a month for each and was a little disappointed the Pre wouldn't be on SERO. However, I didn't whine and complain because it would be a bad (stupid) business move to subsidize this phone on a $30 a month plan.

I sold the SERO lines and I now pay 110/month for 3 Palm Pres. Worth every penny and I no longer have to worry about a phone not working on my plan like on the cheapie plan.

That's something to ponder since Apple gets a cut on the plans.

The two big things that kept me from getting an iPhone were the network and the pricing structure. I can easily afford ~$85 a month(w/ unlimited texting), but why pay that when there are real alternatives now at ~$50 a month on a faster, more reliable network?

Windows flags??? I see Jesus.

You missed the point.

@Paul

I assume that question is for me since I was talking about Pandora.

Yes, I did download Pandora first, which is under 300KB. Admittedly, my checkout time was about 20 minutes, but I was playing with the phone the whole time. By the time I got out, I had my email, tweed and pandora (with 2 channels) set-up, without having to close anything (as well as my contacts transferred from my Touch Pro).

I stand corrected, you can get Pandora to play in the background on an iPhone with the Backgrounder hack.

I got the same results on my Pre before they had run my credit card.

Facepalm.

Sure, multi-tasking is a negative feature and when the iPhone finally implements it, it will be revolutionary. /sarcasm

I'd much rather wait for a webpage to take an extra 2-5 seconds to load and do something else, like check my Twitter or send a text, than be stuck waiting for something to load.

A perfect example of this happened to me just an hour ago while I was at the Apple Store. I loaded Pandora but it took literally over two minutes and I gave up. My choices were stand there staring at the screen while it loaded or exit the app completely. With my Pre, I just open it and go back to my email, webpage, or whatever else. I really don't know why it took so long to load Pandora and it probably usually loads much faster but in this case it was just a reminder of the iPhone's biggest shortcoming.

@ Paul

If Apple pays you to make these posts, you are doing a fine job.

If you have no affiliation with Apple and you come here to post comment after comment, while up Apple's ass, that's pretty sad.

For your sake, I hope you realize sooner, rather than later, that you only get one life and the time you put into all these pro-Apple posts is a waste of your life.