Saturday, June 30, 2007

Pick your iPartner iWisely (or: How AT&T is wrecking the Apple iPhone Experience)


Yet another report of a lousy 'getting it going' experience from Brad Feld with the iPhone.

I've read about 2o of these in the last half an hour. It seems AT&T just didn't think it through very well. Apple's just as guilty. (what is it they say about being able to judge a man best by looking at how he marries?).

Goes to show how you can spend years, 10's of millions of dollars and use up lots of braincells to create an amazing product and STILL, easily, have the users first experience with that product (arguably the most important experience) destroyed by choosing an incapable, immoral or just inept (AT&T, it seems, fit's all of this and more) partner.

1 comment:

Erik said...

How did they not go with t-mobile?

They could go international.

They could bundle wifi hot spots in the plan and your iPhone would be online in any starbucks.

An excellent read from an ex-evangelical.

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