scarred said:The whole 4G thing is a mess.
Wireless around the world is actually a mess. Carriers like it that way (helps with lock in).
Apple should definitely be the "bigger company" and not play this game. Advertise reality, and win the respect of customers for it.
ivan2002 said:Doesn't anyone know how to read fine print anymore????????
Here is another one: this is about the commercials. There was no fine print in commercials!
Apple markets it as UP TO 4G, how is that not true
I feel dumber for having read this comment.Imagine you saw a headline in the Fox News newspaper that said:
Obama Caught Sleeping With Newt Gingrich's Third WifeIf you bought the newspaper and read the story, after the fold you'd read that by coincidence Barack and Callista happened to cross paths and stay in the same hotel one night.
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Apple is putting "4G" in the headline, and "after the fold" there's fine print....
Some countries have consumer protection laws that don't allow misleading headlines even if the fine print explains it all.
The new iPad, 4G-ready. It connects to EDGE in your region? Take your complains to your shi-hitty carrier!
I'm really confused. Apple released iPhone 4S and everyone said ":O it's not 4G" yet it was as fast as other phones that are 4G?
Now the iPad IS 4G people are saying it's not? Someone told me that LTE isn't 4G?
& with iOS 5.1 the "4G" symbols are appearing on iPhone 4S even though they're 3G phones.
I'm sorry I'm probably being very stupid, but can someone explain it to me in words I understand.
Konrad9 said:Why are they singling out Apple in this case? While I agree Apple shouldn't be advertising 4G if it isn't "true" 4G, every other company does the same thing.
BMNB1tch said:not sure if this is marketing's fault?
or everyone carriers duped you into thinking your 3G is "actually" "4G"
TRUE 4G is 100mbps in motion and 1gbps stationary
only SKTelecom and NTTDoCoMo have these sort of speeds
sorry rest of the world your carrier lies
Ha, good luck with that. You probably mean October 2013?LOL! good one!
so the iPad released in the UK will not work on 4G when it's offered by orange in OCT?
Really? The iPhone 4 couls roam in CDMA Networks?I think we should complain how Apple advertised on its UK website that the 4S was a world phone compared to the 4, when it supports the same amount of countries to roam too.
Brilliant idea! No 4G and no 3G/UMTS for them foreigners.This just occurred to me: if Apple had withheld the "4G" model from the rest of the world instead,
This means I should be able to sue every sports car manufacturer that shows an ad with their car going 100+ mph. My country/state/city doesn't have suitable roads and/or arbitrarily low speed limits. Waaaah!
Actually, more like if you were allowed on the main roads but not on the autobahn.No, it'd be more like if Ford advertised a car that could go 100+ mph, but only in the US. If you tried to drive that fast on the Autobahn, it would stop at 65 mph.
Due to the fact that Europe have a wider and better mobile communications network than the american counterparts this is just a laugh.
In Sweden we have had 3G and 4G for some years now. 4G networks was first built here in the world due in big part from Ericsson base stations.
It's just that we have set aside other frequencies than the US due to restriction from military etc. I don't think any concerned party will be happy to have their communications hampered be it in the US or Europe.
Apple choose the home market before the world yet again. For us Apple customers this is no news, it goes way back. We just choose to ignore it for the most part because we love the products.
Wrong. You lose.
It is not possible because we -- all of us -- cannot agree on single standards. Blaming the Americans alone is missing the point.
Blame all of us and you're closer to the guilty party.
The few that think that gain anything is the backward carrier industry.
Can anyone imaging the "industry" coming up with the GSM standard and the amazing explosion that followed? It took government regulation to make it happen.
Why can't replicate the same world-wide? Blame our poor, sorry, cash-starve, lobby-sensitive representatives.
Retina + 4G was the reason that I bought the "new" Ipad.
Here in Sweden: when we check out of Apple store we are offered free 1 month 4G data service. Of course I believed it was LTE, not 3.5G.
Sweden was the first country with LTE test network in 2009. Ipad is equipped with LTE.
How am I as a consumer going to know that Apples LTE is not compatible with our real LTE?
I was going to switch my ADSL to LTE and use Ipad as a hotspot. In Sweden we still have real unlimited dataplans and LTE was only 5-10 dollars more expensive then my ADSL connection.
I hope for a refund.