I am interested and concerned for every consumer and person in society. I care about quality of life. People are shelling out what adds up to be thousands of dollars over a two year period for a bloody cell phone. A significant number of people, if you read some of the data, struggle with their bill. Yes, we're all responsible but the whole industry is laced with complexity and massive limitations of service that can be argued to set the consumer up to extract more money from them through additional fees.
Yes we are ALL responsible for own destiny. Your point is just getting nowhere. I have never had a problem with my cellphone bill. I'm smart enough to understand what I just bought. If a company (Apple) wants to charge thousands for their phones when they are worth only $5 and someone pays for it it's not Apple's fault. That's on the consumer.
If the consumer wants to get the cheapest cellular plan with almost no MB's for data but turns their phone into a YouTube video player and runs up the bill, that's their own negligence.
I watch this forum everyday here and it just baffles me how people create threads and argue that's it's the company's fault and not their own. It's Apple's fault, it's AT&T's fault, it's Verizon's fault, it's Sprint's fault.
Some of the posts here of people saying their iPhone 6 is bent. They claim they did absolutely NOTHING to cause it bend. They just woke up the next morning and it was bent. Well how is that even possible? Are phones now just magically bending themselves? I saw two people today claim that. Absurd.
The moment someone questions the OP as to why aren't they taking responsibility for anything then they get mad and say "How dare you blame me, da da da da".
Even your post here saying that Verizon was marketing to me about giving me a phone credit. No they weren't. I ordered online and ported my own number online. After I received my iPhone 6 Plus I called Verizon about any deals. It was my choice to switch to Verizon and I chose a plan that works for my budget.
You have to keep in mind that we all have choices. Nobody needs any of these tech toys. It's a want. I grew up without it. There were no cell phones, there was no world wide web and nobody had a personal computer other than the ones we had to learn how to build when I went to school for electronics.
So many people here take responsibility for nothing and I can't respect that.