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Old 06-27-2007, 06:22 PM
Jim P Sharma
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Default Re: Apple's iPhone casts big shadow on cell industry

none <a@b.com> wrote:
> "zappo" <zappo@zappo.com> wrote:
>
>>> Check with us in 11 years,

>>
>> Still will have fuck all of the country covered by wifi.

>
> wee WiMax / 4G
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiMAX


WiMax aint WiFi, child.

>>> and your tune will say, "oh, I guess that Oxford guy was right".


>> Not a chance. And you'll be dead then anyway.


> I'm only 40, so I still have about 46 years left to see all this play out.


Nope, you'll be dead in a couple of years, child.

>>>>> Cell towers are dead ends, VOIP wipes them out and is basically "free".


>>>> Pity about the lack of WiFi in so much of the area most want to move in.


>>> Do you live in the US? Just curious? or the back woods?


>> Irrelevant to how much of the US is covered by wifi where its viable to do voip.


> about 40% of the current coverage area based on population density.


Pig ignorant lie.

>>>> And if cell towers are dead ends, no point in getting an
>>>> iphone, you might as well just have a decent non phone
>>>> instead and avoid the 2 year contract cost with AT&T too.


>>> But an iPhone will allow for free phone calls within the year,


>> We'll see...


>>> most "cell" phones won't.


>> Most wont care because there plans wont
>> cost anything like what the iphone plans cost.


> The iPhone plan is pretty cheap actually,


Nope.

> $59, for 450 full rollover minutes and unlimited data /
> email / web. Only $20 more if you an existing customer.


> http://www.apple.com/iphone/easysetup/rateplans.html


>>>>>> And then there's the phone plans on offer too. That
>>>>>> isnt something that was relevant with the ipod, you
>>>>>> could just dump your CDs into if it you wanted to.


>>>>> But you don't need a data plan for many of the iphone features,

>>
>>>> You do for voip tho.

>>
>>> Not sure as of yet. VOIP would run in the Safari Browser
>>> as it sits now, so there would be no need for "data" through
>>> ATT for that. That's all pure TCP/IP / 802.11.

>>
>> Pity about what they charge per month.

>
> ???? It's less than most other services.
>
>>>>> so just learn that once Skype is on the iPhone,
>>>>> (about 2 months) no need to pay ATT a single penny.

>>
>>>> Wrong, you're locked into a 2 year contract with ATT.

>>
>>> Ah, but you can leave on day 1 for $175, so you aren't "locked in".

>>
>> You still get to pay someone a substantial monthly charge.

>
> Yes, $27 a month for unlimited wireless data, web, email. But that's
> cheap compared to what an old fashioned cell company is trying to
> "double" suck out of you.
>
>>>>> Then the iPhone becomes a "free" phone
>>>>> to talk to anyone in the world for "free".

>>
>>>> Fantasy. Skype aint free.

>>
>>> Skype to Skype is free, so iPhone to iPhone would be free,

>>
>> Pity about everyone else you need to call.


> pretty much everyone i deal with, business clients, family
> members, etc will have an iphone within 24 months,


Just another of your pathetic little drug crazed fantasys, child.

> so it's not a problem for me. if you still need to call an old
> fashioned phone, you can still do it with skype out for $3 a
> month, or 2.1 cents per minute for international calls.


Only when wifi is available.

>>> sure if you are talking to an old fashioned phone, you pay a small
>>> fee, or international old fashioned phones, you pay a bit higher
>>> fee, but Skype to Skype anywhere in the world, to Skype anywhere in
>>> the world is free.


>> Pity about those you need to call that dont have skype.


> What? you clearly don't understand how skype works,
> you can call ANYONE with skype, they don't have to
> have skype to talk to them with skype.


You do have to TO CALL THEM FROM FREE, child.

> Maybe that's where your confusion is?


Nope, your confusion is ignoring his claim about FREE, child.

> http://www.skype.com/products/skypeout/


No news to anyone, child.

>>>>> Like it should be.

>>
>>>> Its nothing like that.

>>
>>> You'll learn.

>>
>> I've learnt, that wankers like you have never ever had a clue.


> Ah, see above, you haven't even learned how skype works.


See above, you cant even manage to read what he wrote.

>>> And since you are too slow to understand large
>>> concepts as I discuss, you've been Plonked!

>>
>> Fat lot of good that will do you, child.
>>
>>> Sorry, you just aren't rational.

>>
>> Silly little desperatey wanking children like you in spades, child.
>>
>> Now clean that mess up and go to your room.

>
> poor ron


Can't even manage to work out what my name is either.



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