LOL...the hate around here if off the chain!

[mark34]

HA!!! The jokes about logic are the best thing I have read on this board in a long time. I am glad I am not the only one scratching my head at some of the reactions around here.

 

[bavarian3]

I think the answer is; it is how the telecommunications have set up their pricing system. Verizon unlimited text and data is $149, Sprint is $99, etc...

I also think that one can't say everything goes through AT&T hardware.... because it is separate technologies.

 

[Antaios]

No, what is funny is how they can't understand the reality of what happened.

The iPhone is simply being treated the same as all of At&t's other smartphones and PDAs.

It is quite simple really...

BlackBerry= $30/mo for data + separate text package starting at $5
WinMo= $30/mo for data + separate text package starting at $5
Palm Centro (which is EDGE only mind you)= $30/mo for data + separate text package starting at $5

Why should the iPhone, now a true smartphone, be treated any different?

Ladies and Gentlemen... It's your trusty at&t rep here, Antaios. Ok all I have to say is that everything stated aboe is absolutely correct, the only difference is on all the above devices customers have an option of removing the unlimited data if it becomes to much for them monthly. On the iPhone 3G customer HAVE to keep the data....as far as we know now. Here's a workaround though. Call customer service tell em you broke your iPhone and you are using a regular phone.. put your sim card into your old phone (not iPhone 1st Gen) they will take off the iPhone data plan, then simply pop your sim card back in your iPhone 3G... haha I'm going to get fired one day... hahaha

 

[davidlw]

So how much would say 1000 text messages a month on a family plan cost. I am paying $30 per month for unlimited text messages.

 

[WhySoSerious]

What logic? I complain about a problem and he says "yes, but there are other people with the same problem!"

Well, whoopdie doo. That's a logical answer?

*gently slides a sugar cube across the table*....

 

[wildcardd]

I'd bet Ron Paul would never had let this happen.


Can I have a sugar cube too?

 

[luckygyrl83]

Ladies and Gentlemen... It's your trusty at&t rep here, Antaios. Ok all I have to say is that everything stated aboe is absolutely correct, the only difference is on all the above devices customers have an option of removing the unlimited data if it becomes to much for them monthly. On the iPhone 3G customer HAVE to keep the data....as far as we know now. Here's a workaround though. Call customer service tell em you broke your iPhone and you are using a regular phone.. put your sim card into your old phone (not iPhone 1st Gen) they will take off the iPhone data plan, then simply pop your sim card back in your iPhone 3G... haha I'm going to get fired one day... hahaha

Hahahaha thats great. So, if it um, breaks within 30 days and you cancel the contract, then what? Iphone is contract free?? Do you have to bring in the broken pieces or something?

 

[Sonicjay]

*gently slides a sugar cube across the table*....

lol.. you're cracking me up with this

 

[L3X]

Ladies and Gentlemen... It's your trusty at&t rep here, Antaios. Ok all I have to say is that everything stated aboe is absolutely correct, the only difference is on all the above devices customers have an option of removing the unlimited data if it becomes to much for them monthly. On the iPhone 3G customer HAVE to keep the data....as far as we know now. Here's a workaround though. Call customer service tell em you broke your iPhone and you are using a regular phone.. put your sim card into your old phone (not iPhone 1st Gen) they will take off the iPhone data plan, then simply pop your sim card back in your iPhone 3G... haha I'm going to get fired one day... hahaha

Why would anyone do this? Wouldn't this prevent you from having any data plan? So, you have an iPhone with no data plan...kind of dumb imo.

 

[iHerzeleid]

Ladies and Gentlemen... It's your trusty at&t rep here, Antaios. Ok all I have to say is that everything stated aboe is absolutely correct, the only difference is on all the above devices customers have an option of removing the unlimited data if it becomes to much for them monthly. On the iPhone 3G customer HAVE to keep the data....as far as we know now. Here's a workaround though. Call customer service tell em you broke your iPhone and you are using a regular phone.. put your sim card into your old phone (not iPhone 1st Gen) they will take off the iPhone data plan, then simply pop your sim card back in your iPhone 3G... haha I'm going to get fired one day... hahaha

You can take it off on your account webpage.

 

[geekmommy4]

You can take it off on your account webpage.

I couldn't touch the data plans on the website with my 1st iPhone. It just said to call customer service. When I had my Treo, I could adjust the data plan on the web, hence the ability to choose the MediaMax plan for $20 which gave me the same thing as the 1st gen iPhone with unlimited data and 200 text messages. If you called customer service, they'd make you do the PDA plan. They are just watching closer on the iPhone by making you call customer service (at least on my account).

 

[soLoredd]

I don't care about the pricing, as has been pointed out the prices are on track with other devices.

HOWEVER...

I'm perplexed (although I understand why) at how this activation process is going about. It was fantastic to be able to go to the Apple Store, buy the phone, take it home, sync with iTunes and activate. But this forward thinking has been crushed by AT&T. They have problems at their own stores getting people up and running, why do they expect things to go smoothly by throwing Apple employees into it? It's going to be an absolute nightmare on release day, you watch.