My brother-in-law Will (lovely man, great father, green to the gills), has documented a recent Verizon customer service issue that caused is mother Grace (lovely woman, cool mother, lives in Jersey) to cancel her newly installed Verizon DSL account due to speeds LOWER than 56kps. I didn’t make a typo there, modem-like speeds at DLS-like […]

A quick search of “iPhone” on EBay returned “1696 items found for iPhone“. And iLaunch hasn’t even arrived yet. I can’t wait til’ Saturday when I’l lbe presented with the opportunity to buy an empty iPhone box or complete iPhone manual.
 

OK, this is what I’ve been afraid of. The aggregate costs have been computed and here’s the hit to the bottom line for all of those waiting in line for the iLaunch. OK, so a very quick comparison: Family plan with Verizon; 2 Razrs $49.99 + $35 activation + $79.00/m = $1,981. […]

As we inch ever closer to iLaunch, Bloomberg.com tells investors that they may be getting set up for a fall. As with many of their products, Apple would like to capture the market share but in a business that is four times larger than the PC market, this could be harder than most people […]

Well, I almost missed this article in Information Week. Reinforcing my claim that Not All That Glitters Is Gold.

iPhone Backlash Misses the PointPosted by Richard Martin, Jun 20, 2007 06:50 PM
Fake Steve Jobs is not someone to suffer indignity lightly. And lately he’s had plenty to wax indignant about. We refer, natch, to the […]

As Clara Peller might have asked, Where’s the Beef?
In what must be a high level decision, AT&T announced it’s own video sharing service that will not work on the iPhone. Just what is up with that? We can only imagine that there has been enough lead time to either have Apple tweak the iPhone to […]

Ummmmm, like, you’re kidding, right? Please tell me your kidding. Please????

Will you be able to unbox your own iPhone?
Posted Jun 22nd 2007 9:00AM by Michael Rose

You’ve saved your pennies, and then thought better of the whole penny-centric strategy. You’ve moved on to cashing in your savings bonds. You’ve figured out which AT&T […]

So, it’s not just Apple that’s taking a slightly lower than high road with the immanent release of the much touted iPhone. (See related story) AT&T intends to charge you $175.00 for early cancellation despite the fact you’re not getting any kind of deal on the price of the phone. Isn’t that special!
For years cell […]