Regional Carrier Cites Prestige as Reason to Offer iPhone

[ixodes]

Yes, of course. iPhone buyers = vain. Buyers of plastic Android devices from Korean conglomerate refrigerator manufacturers = smart.

We get it.

Oops, someone is sensitive to another viewpoint.

Oh, and by the way it's no longer 1960.

Plastics are excellent these days, without them your world would be far more expensive, not as efficient and you'd have far less variety.

 

[Chupa Chupa]

Where have you been living for the last couple of years?

Reality.

I don't know who was buying all those phones you talk about but it wasn't ordinary folks, and I wasn't talking about sales anyway, but sheer usability.

Android up until the S III has been pretty much a phone for nerds and cheap skates. Functionally, none of them were anywhere near as usable as any iPhone. Even professional reviews who wanted to like Android said as much. The S III is the first to Android to really go toe-to-toe, and even exceed the current iPhone.

 

[Born Again]

I don't know about you, but buying what everybody else buys is not cool, it just makes you a member of a herd of consumer cattle.

You just described apple customers

 

[gnasher729]

What benchmark is used to determine if phone x is better than phone y? What sort of scientific methods are used? I'm being a bit sarcastic because there isn't a benchmark, it's simply an opinion. It is my opinion that iOS devices are better, but it doesn't really matter. You think Android is better, but it doesn't really matter.

Common sense: If the "competitor" tries to copy your product, yours is better.

 

[fo0bar]

Crazy seeing that logo, I used to work for that company in the 90s. Well, not Cellcom specifically, but their sister company, a dialup ISP called NetNet (which appears to be out of business / folded into the parent company).

Cellcom used to give us free phones to demo every few months (we still had to pay the service bill). I got some pretty weird phones over the years, but my favorite was the Nokia 282. Nothing fancy about it, except it was nearly indestructible.

 

[LagunaSol]

Plastics are excellent these days, without them your world would be far more expensive, not as efficient and you'd have far less variety.

Yes, Samsung is famous for its use of "excellent" plastics:

The Note 10.1 is wrapped in the trashiest, most awful, cheapest-feeling plastic I've ever experienced. Sure, the finish is Samsung's usual glossy-plastic junk, but this plastic isn't even rigid. It's squishy.

Yeah, you heard me, squishy plastic. You can easily flex it with a light touch, and you can feel the whole back deform in your hands when using it. It's sort of like holding a marshmallow.

http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...iew-an-embarrassing-lazy-arrogant-money-grab/

Oops.

 

[ixodes]

Yes, Samsung is famous for its use of "excellent" plastics:
Oops.

The scientific data you've cited: squishy?
The independent experts?

My you're easily mislead...

Certainly you are not so gullible as to believe this, or even worse, perhaps you do.

 

[DeathChill]

The scientific data you've cited: squishy?
The independent experts?

My you're easily mislead...

Certainly you are not so gullible as to believe this, or even worse, perhaps you do.

Just watch the video in that review. Squishy would be an acceptable term, I suppose.

 

[HoopTrundler]

Refusing to buy what everyone buys JUST because everyone buys it is no better. Buy what works best for you.

I just want to point out that your argument about individuality loses its weight when your profile picture is a sheep.

 

[binaryspiral]

They are going to lose me. I'll wait to see if they pick up the iPhone 5. If not, it's goodbye USC?

A strong theory for USCC not picking up the iPhone yet is that their major market in Chicago wouldn't be able to handle the 3G load iPhones generate, and would cause much more harm than good.

USCC has bet it all on LTE and made huge investments in the midwest well ahead of AT&T's LTE rollout. Just watching from the sidelines, an announcement wouldn't surprise me from USCC that they'll be picking up the 5 if it is LTE capable.

But sadly they're still more expensive than AT&T.

 

[bilbo--baggins]

I couldn't care less whether other people buy iPhones, or whether they're regarded as cool or not. I was one of only a handful of people who queued up in my local town for the first iPhone.

Having said that - if the iPhone is popular it does help encourage software to the platform, and means that Apple has the money and incentive to keep improving the product. So I'm glad the iPhone is popular from that point of view - and I'm certainly not going to stop buying a product that I want just because everyone else has one.