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Steve "THE LIAR" Jobs
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I didn't believe a word out of dukes mouth.
I know a lot of people put faith in that unlimited service. People who were on a budget for a simple computer with decent internet access (twitter, facebook, Youtube) at a good price. IMO they got hosed.
It is insects like that is why most CEO's have to insulate themselves from the public. That guy is most likely a Public Employee, who doesn't have to do anything but watch you tube videos at work in the DMV. Now when he has to pay for clogging up all our bandwidth he is pissed. Well I like AT&T, it works overseas as opposed to lets say, Verizion. Since I actually have to work, every day, to keep my employees paid. I can't sit like an amoeba and do facebook all day on the public dole.
If you really want to know what is bad with most bigger companies like AT&T look and see who the big stockholders are, like CALPERS (the California public employees retirement fund) They want every penny of dividend for their loyal, vocal and formerly lazy Caltran employees. They force companies to be short sighted and wring every penny they can out of companies like AT&T at the expense of the consumer.
So this DMV sourpuss should go back to his studio apartment with his half cafe, decafe soy latte he bought with a coupon and make kissing noises to his three pet ferrets.
If you really want to know what is bad with most bigger companies like AT&T look and see who the big stockholders are, like CALPERS (the California public employees retirement fund) They want every penny of dividend for their loyal, vocal and formerly lazy Caltran employees. They force companies to be short sighted and wring every penny they can out of companies like AT&T at the expense of the consumer.
So this DMV sourpuss should go back to his studio apartment with his half cafe, decafe soy latte he bought with a coupon and make kissing noises to his three pet ferrets.
i see where ur coming from but your way too out of proportion here. i myself bought an ipad but that was because it wasn't a crappy windows one. it looks nice and the iphone os goes perfectly on it, they will give us a preview of the 4.0 for ipad at wwdc. the fact that it gets to us so late is stupid but like i said ur way out of proportion.
and on a side note i bet after reading the title of even the first line they thought u were a complete idiot, the fact is this is a apple site and then u bash the ceo. nobody likes that
and on a side note i bet after reading the title of even the first line they thought u were a complete idiot, the fact is this is a apple site and then u bash the ceo. nobody likes that
wow!!! Sooo... all the people who bought the HTC EVO this weekend and signed up with the everything plan for $99 mo. if Sprint raised the price next month and said that the everything plan is now going to be $139, all those people should be mad at rant at HTC right because obviously HTC controls sprint and their prices right?
I think it was a cruddy thing to do, but I do not think that Apple had anything to do with it.
NO ONE has ever been privy to what the exclusivity contract says between apple and at&t. maybe apple had to go with them for any new cellular devices introduced while under contract. maybe, it says at&t can change monthly rates to the customers without notice to them or apple.
whatever though, you go ahead and be mad. If you get this upset over something this trivial in the grand scheme of life, you must live an absolutely miserable existence.
I think it was a cruddy thing to do, but I do not think that Apple had anything to do with it.
NO ONE has ever been privy to what the exclusivity contract says between apple and at&t. maybe apple had to go with them for any new cellular devices introduced while under contract. maybe, it says at&t can change monthly rates to the customers without notice to them or apple.
whatever though, you go ahead and be mad. If you get this upset over something this trivial in the grand scheme of life, you must live an absolutely miserable existence.
Wow this post isn't worth counting the words.
You would have thought this dude walked into on the ATT ceo and SJ having a 3 some with his wife. He is obviously bitter.
Well I didn't read the whole thing but quite frankly I feel lied to as well.
Twice even!
The first time was when the iPhone 3G came out and Steve stood on the stage and gave the price at $199 only he forgot to mention that this price was ONLY for new subscribers! OKAY I learned my lesson. The devil is in the details. It's my obligation to check the details and not believe everything that is said. So okay, I moved on. Now again I ordered the Ipad 3G under the again stage presentation that one could turn off and on and unlimited plan at will. I haven't even taken possesion of the device and that plan is gone. I will be grandfathered in but I HAVE TO stay on that plan in order to keep it. So I feel lied to again. Only this time the details did infact state that you could turn it off and on!!! Now I understand that there was no contract and it was month to month and a comany has the right the change plans. HOWEVER the ethical problem I have with this is that is was done only 35 days after it was advertised!!! There has not been one single cycle where anyone who got a 3G on day one to be able to take advantage of the off and on cycle that was advertized and used to sell the device like a fool like me did. So sorry, go ahead and flame me. It is how I feel. I can't change that! I still love my iPhone and I have no problem with the tiered plan for it because like I said, they have the right the change plan rates. But changing the iPad plan in just 35 days is in my mind BEING LIED TOO!
FLAME AWAY!
Twice even!
The first time was when the iPhone 3G came out and Steve stood on the stage and gave the price at $199 only he forgot to mention that this price was ONLY for new subscribers! OKAY I learned my lesson. The devil is in the details. It's my obligation to check the details and not believe everything that is said. So okay, I moved on. Now again I ordered the Ipad 3G under the again stage presentation that one could turn off and on and unlimited plan at will. I haven't even taken possesion of the device and that plan is gone. I will be grandfathered in but I HAVE TO stay on that plan in order to keep it. So I feel lied to again. Only this time the details did infact state that you could turn it off and on!!! Now I understand that there was no contract and it was month to month and a comany has the right the change plans. HOWEVER the ethical problem I have with this is that is was done only 35 days after it was advertised!!! There has not been one single cycle where anyone who got a 3G on day one to be able to take advantage of the off and on cycle that was advertized and used to sell the device like a fool like me did. So sorry, go ahead and flame me. It is how I feel. I can't change that! I still love my iPhone and I have no problem with the tiered plan for it because like I said, they have the right the change plan rates. But changing the iPad plan in just 35 days is in my mind BEING LIED TOO!
FLAME AWAY!
No use trying to convince anyone around here, people like us are crazy if we think The Liar is anything but a God!
And for those people who can not understand, or choose to ignore the duplicity in this bait and switch scheme, probably concocted by both parities, well, you can go along your merry way, enjoy the Apple cocktail The Liar in chief will sell you tomorrow and runout and pre order your new, oh so cool device from the folks at cupertino!
Cheers fanboys!
And for those people who can not understand, or choose to ignore the duplicity in this bait and switch scheme, probably concocted by both parities, well, you can go along your merry way, enjoy the Apple cocktail The Liar in chief will sell you tomorrow and runout and pre order your new, oh so cool device from the folks at cupertino!
Cheers fanboys!
btw they started working on the ipad first and once the OS was created steve decided to make a phone with it. which was pretty smart cause I don't think the iPad would of been a success if there wasnt already a huge preinstalled base of people who are familiar with how it works.
And that information came in 2008 whilst it would be too expensive to come out with the iPad back then.
Jeez
Jeez
It seems to me that perhaps the OP should be more concerned about the CEO of AT&T since Apple doesn't control the cost of cellular service? And if you bought an iPad... weren't you just as fooled as the "rest" of us? And if you didn't buy an iPad well... why complain about it?
Additionally, how much data have you used on your unlimited 3G service anyway?
Additionally, how much data have you used on your unlimited 3G service anyway?
Happened to me?, my friend if you have an iPad purchased recently it happened to you too..
Persoanly, this is a lesson in what not to do in dealing with customers, that is of course unless my customers are lemmings and will buy anything i tell them to buy that is.
This change will never affect me, I don't use that much of the unlimited service ever!
I'll keep it just because who knows, right? I might want to use more one day but its doubtful.
It's the point, as another intelligent poster commented, 35 days into this they change the rules. Sure some can look at it the way ATT would like you to look at it, bottom line is, 35 days, after introduction they changed the rules and to me that's BS!
Sorry you all don't see it that way but it would be asking a lot to have a forum dedicated to someone who tells bold faced lies to sell a product to believe otherwise!
Seriously? Its not the end of the world, companies change their plans/contracts/products every day. Thats why they have that little spot in the agreement you agree to when you open and/or use the device that all services and products are subject to change. They didn't lie, you just failed to read the contract terms and agreements like most people do.
Get over it...
Yes I was just as fooled as anyone else.
Why complain, because what happened was not right. Some people speak up rather than sit back and take it. Sometimes things change, rarely but sometimes they do.
The consumers have the power and believe you me, if more people were up in arms about this it would turn around in a heart beat. But i dare say the majority of ipad users are just happy to have their grandfathered clause and will be content with that. They'll use their unlimited service until, the time comes around next year, maybe sooner where The Liar will prance back out on the stage and introduce another miracle machine, the iPad 2.
When you go get your new one, you'll be put on a leash like all the new iPad customers starting tomorrow.
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