@Farmboy
Dude, you're the only one trotting out this moose herding nonsense. If you travel, you want your phone to work. If you use a data phone heavily (for, say, GPS directions, pandora, or web-browsing), you want your data to work, all the time. When it doesn't it sucks.

With AT&T, it doesn't work a *lot* of the time. Even where they have coverage, it's pretty janky. Don't sweat it, as they'll be VerSprinT&T soon enough.

@Farmboy
You've apparently never driven anywhere outside of your city of residence? People go plenty of places where they don't live.

It may be hard for a shut-in to understand, but the whole point of a mobile phone is to be *mobile*.

@airj1012

No, it's true. I've had AT&T. They were the most reliably crappy mobile carrier I've ever experienced (and I had a PrimeCo phone back in the day).

Humor aside, I agree with your point. It's ridiculous to make these nonsense claims, and it should be ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H *is* illegal.

Wow....

Don't feel bad. It's the same in Chicago as well.

As I watch kids in the airport with LED-lit shoes dancing around in front of the departures board, it occurs to me that, if someone gave me this XBox 360 right now, I might throw it at them.

Good thing the contest doesn't end right now.

One inch wasn't groundbreaking when they released the MacBook air. In fact, nothing about the air really was. If toshiba, panasonic, and Sony would stay on message with their long history of interesting notebooks, maybe people would remember that the only thing we have to thank apple for is the stupid mini displayport connector on my 13" mbp.

We. WTF? Stupid iPhone.

Incorrect.

It also doesn't play SACDs anymore, nor does it do Linux...

The first, okay. The second, I have no idea how dropping a boot-loader helps them in any way.

And this is the drawback of feature-streamlining for the majority.

85% of people won't ever use PS2 games.
93% of people won't ever use SACD.
90% of people won't ever care about the twisty badge.
97% of people won't ever install Linux.
92% of people won't use more than 2 USB ports.
87% of people won't ever use the card reader.

In the best case, this means that 15% of people are pissed off. In the worst case, it means that 56% of people are pissed off. The reality is somewhere in the middle.