I don’t know, call me skeptical, but…
Hopefully there’s a follow up book on how to WASH that money…
Author Dottie Randazzo’s new book How to Shit Money to Get an iPhone sounds interesting enough, however, I would imagine that depending on whether or not you are a current, under-contract AT&T customer, you might have to shit obscenely unhealthy amounts of money to get that iPhone. Hopefully there’s a “consult a physician“-type health warning somewhere on the back.
That’s One Sweet Deal!
I’m not all that into the new iPhone 3G S (nor am I eligible to upgrade), but I was curious to see when I would be eligible for an AT&T “discount”, should Apple decide to release a true iPhone update. Imagine how excited I was when I plugged in all my information on Apple’s iPhone upgrade eligibility site and was offered this sweet deal!
That’s right, I can “UPgrade” my 16 GB iPhone 3G for an 8 GB model for only $300! Way to know your customers, guys! (Incidentally, I can upgrade with a discount January 17, 2010, hopefully right after the new iPhone 4G appears at Macworld).
I was wrong: It’s Apple screwing us, not AT&T
Filed under: Apple Bashing, Cynicism, Not Cool, Opinion, iPhone
[WARNING: This post contains references to me attempting to do math, so all figures are subject to scrutiny and your usual criticism of how wrong I have it.]
Well, a full day has passed since the WWDC, and I think now with a little bit of distance comes clarity. I was pretty angrily bashing AT&T for screwing us current iPhone 3G customers with their $200 “early upgrade tax”, for the iPhone 3Gs, and I have come to the decision that my anger was misplaced. The real bad guy in this debacle is Apple, not AT&T. Read more
WOW. Bitter much?
It’s not every game that gives you a window into the personal lives of the developer, but a quick read through the description of “The Girl Game“, and you get a pretty clear picture of a man who hasn’t had the best luck with women. In fact, he may not even know how many feet they have.
The object of The Girl Game is to buy as many SHOES as you can, using your boyfriend’s credit card! Experience the ultimately addictive combination of match 3 and shoe shopping.
INSTRUCTIONS:
Arrange the pairs of SHOES so there are 3 in a row to take them to the checkout. Watch out for sales where you can get SHOES for 25% or 50% off. Match 4 in a row to create a 75% off sale. Match 5 in a row to make a clearance sale where you get a whole row of shoes for free!At the end of every round your boyfriend will get his paycheck and add funds to your credit card. Spend it all and the bank will reward you by increasing your credit limit! Think fast! If you don’t spend all your boyfriend’s money in time the bank will reduce your credit limit.
Hmmm… so. what’s a girl supposed to do with 3 shoes? I suppose she could always beat “her man” with it if he doesn’t bring home the money quick enough.
FAIL: APPLE can’t get AT&T to turn on MMS, yet developers can
Faithful Macenstein reader Matthew writes:
Hey Doc, I was just checking out Apple’s page on iPhone OS 3.0 and it looks like even Apple web designers don’t have access to MMS features in the iPhone 3.0 betas. Here’s a snapshot of the MMS screen with the little red exclamation points next to the picture they tried to send along with the link.
those would show up every time I tried to send an MMS (AT&T hasn’t enabled it for beta testers), but since I convinced them to enable it for me for developing reasons I never get them anymore. They basically just show up when there’s an error when sending MMS (usually because it isn’t enabled). It’s pretty funny how they couldn’t get a screenshot where it worked.
Man.. so no one over at Apple has the clout to get them to activate MMS on one of their iPhones for a screen grab? I mean, they couldn’t even Photoshop those out for the screenshot? Or does even Apple have no idea how MMS will finally look when (IF) it ever works on AT&T?
God, I used to be able to defend (in my mind, at least) Apple’s choice of iPhone provider, but after today’s debacle where MMS and Tethering were announced for the rest of the world and eventually maybe kind sorta for the US, it is getting pretty damn hard to argue Apple has the consumer’s best interests in mind in sticking with AT&T.
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