and you read it on the news today:
AT&T reported a 61% rise in quarterly net amid recent acquisitions. The phone giant said it activated 146,000 iPhone subscribers in the last two days of the quarter while experts expected 700K! stock's down 8%
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Friday, July 13, 2007
iPhone Hell
I know you guys are very protective of whatever APPLE does, but this time its time to short OR sell the stock. The stock has inflated over the last few months due to iPhone launch and the initial launch numbers have been good. Here is iPhone experince after 10 days use
The Good:
1. Excellent iPod and Video iPod Functionality, couldn't get better. Nicely done. Thats what the guys at APPLE know best.
2. Very good Browser capability. Safari with the multitouch interface is a breeze to use, it does crash every time i try to log into my corporate email, but that's ok.
3. Photos, Weather, Stocks widgets. All good.
The REALLY bad:
1. Battery life: it lasts me half a day!! i have to charge it at work otherwise the battery dies around 4.00 PM, NO EXTENDED BATTERY support EITHER. BAD for a Med-Heavy phone user
2. Email is horrible. I configured 3 email accounts: personal, GMAIL and Businesses. When i get a new email, it buzzes. i dont know WHICH email account has a new email!! i have to check each account and see how many total emails they have and remember the emails they had last time to know which one has new email.. !
3. Cant do multiple SMS's!! i tried to send a text to 3 friends at the same time, couldn't do it. I have to send three different text messages.. that was it for me. Lost it at that point.
4. Froze almost 3 times, touch screen stopped responding on Contacts screen. Moving to iPod screen and back resolved the problem.
5. Contacts VERY unsafe while driving. Can really find a name of someone to dial when i am driving. NEW LEGAL RULES for Driving will come into place for iPhone if the product adoption continues!
And now why you should short the stock OR RUSH to sell what ever APPLE stock you hold. After frustration with poor email and phone functionality, i decided to move back to BlackJack (which is an excellent phone and email device, but poor music player), called ATT and asked them to "move my account back to business user from personal account that i had to create for the iphone" response I got from 4 levels of managers was shocking: To cancel iPhone i need to get a NEW NUMBER. CAN NOT KEEP THE SAME NUMBER!!!
I specifically asked ATT rep if i can move back to my account when i got the phone, they said ; "Yes that is easy and takes 3 days, we'll ship you a new SIM card with original number for your older phone". Now they are saying: I have to get a new number to get rid of iPhone.. that is horrible and unacceptable. I asked the ATT manager, what if I move to Verizon and come back to ATT, that way I can keep the number, And the manager says " we dont recommend it but you can do that", so i said "why dont you cancel my account and bring me back to ATT, save me the hassle", and he said "we cant do that".
I can be one of the early ones to find this out but as more and more iPhone users find how bad the battery life and phone features are, and they decide to return, they'll find they need a new number. Which, I am sure, will result in lots o negative press for APPLE and thus should start the stock downfall.
Note to any lawyers reading this: Yes there is a lot of money to be made by suing APPLE and ATT on consumer courts. Give me a % of your winnings for getting you this excellent case! ;-0
For me, I am moving to Helio, heard OCEAN was a neat device. Will give you guys a review of that next!
ADDED: My colleague (Sunil)'s iPhone just got stuck, no way to reboot, at least MSFT's products can be rebooted!
here's a video of similar sufferings: http://www.brightcove.com/title.jsp?title=1111398374&channel=824109977
ADDED: cant connect my Bose or SHURE headset, need an adapter which is 9.95 and about 1.5 Inch.. now that i am using iPhone as iVideoPod, i need to buy these adapters.. :-(
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The Good:
1. Excellent iPod and Video iPod Functionality, couldn't get better. Nicely done. Thats what the guys at APPLE know best.
2. Very good Browser capability. Safari with the multitouch interface is a breeze to use, it does crash every time i try to log into my corporate email, but that's ok.
3. Photos, Weather, Stocks widgets. All good.
The REALLY bad:
1. Battery life: it lasts me half a day!! i have to charge it at work otherwise the battery dies around 4.00 PM, NO EXTENDED BATTERY support EITHER. BAD for a Med-Heavy phone user
2. Email is horrible. I configured 3 email accounts: personal, GMAIL and Businesses. When i get a new email, it buzzes. i dont know WHICH email account has a new email!! i have to check each account and see how many total emails they have and remember the emails they had last time to know which one has new email.. !
3. Cant do multiple SMS's!! i tried to send a text to 3 friends at the same time, couldn't do it. I have to send three different text messages.. that was it for me. Lost it at that point.
4. Froze almost 3 times, touch screen stopped responding on Contacts screen. Moving to iPod screen and back resolved the problem.
5. Contacts VERY unsafe while driving. Can really find a name of someone to dial when i am driving. NEW LEGAL RULES for Driving will come into place for iPhone if the product adoption continues!
And now why you should short the stock OR RUSH to sell what ever APPLE stock you hold. After frustration with poor email and phone functionality, i decided to move back to BlackJack (which is an excellent phone and email device, but poor music player), called ATT and asked them to "move my account back to business user from personal account that i had to create for the iphone" response I got from 4 levels of managers was shocking: To cancel iPhone i need to get a NEW NUMBER. CAN NOT KEEP THE SAME NUMBER!!!
I specifically asked ATT rep if i can move back to my account when i got the phone, they said ; "Yes that is easy and takes 3 days, we'll ship you a new SIM card with original number for your older phone". Now they are saying: I have to get a new number to get rid of iPhone.. that is horrible and unacceptable. I asked the ATT manager, what if I move to Verizon and come back to ATT, that way I can keep the number, And the manager says " we dont recommend it but you can do that", so i said "why dont you cancel my account and bring me back to ATT, save me the hassle", and he said "we cant do that".
I can be one of the early ones to find this out but as more and more iPhone users find how bad the battery life and phone features are, and they decide to return, they'll find they need a new number. Which, I am sure, will result in lots o negative press for APPLE and thus should start the stock downfall.
Note to any lawyers reading this: Yes there is a lot of money to be made by suing APPLE and ATT on consumer courts. Give me a % of your winnings for getting you this excellent case! ;-0
For me, I am moving to Helio, heard OCEAN was a neat device. Will give you guys a review of that next!
ADDED: My colleague (Sunil)'s iPhone just got stuck, no way to reboot, at least MSFT's products can be rebooted!
here's a video of similar sufferings: http://www.brightcove.com/title.jsp?title=1111398374&channel=824109977
ADDED: cant connect my Bose or SHURE headset, need an adapter which is 9.95 and about 1.5 Inch.. now that i am using iPhone as iVideoPod, i need to buy these adapters.. :-(
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Tuesday, July 3, 2007
iPhone
everyone is talking about about the iPhone. I was on Tom's Blog:
http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/06/20/iphone-youtube-deal-bunch-of-hype/
which was picked up by several other blogs. now that i got my hands on a iPhone yesterday i could not understand what the hype is about. Its a touch screen iPod and also does some phone stuff. And?
On the phone part: got disconnected several times while on a call, but cant blame apple for that, ATT network cant handle the new iPhone subscribers?
anyways, APPLE should have stuck with their usual launch strategy: element of surprise, launch the iPhone and for that matter Apple TV when they were ready and make a big splash. Now with months of hype, none of the iPhone features seem that breakthrough.
its pretty bad for email, could not get a sentence in without multiple backspace uses. Does not sync Calendar and Contacts with Exchange, which means i cant use it. So am going back to Blackjack (3G, Keypad, Exchange that works) :-)
if i do switch back to iPhone, you'll read it here.
-D
http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/06/20/iphone-youtube-deal-bunch-of-hype/
which was picked up by several other blogs. now that i got my hands on a iPhone yesterday i could not understand what the hype is about. Its a touch screen iPod and also does some phone stuff. And?
On the phone part: got disconnected several times while on a call, but cant blame apple for that, ATT network cant handle the new iPhone subscribers?
anyways, APPLE should have stuck with their usual launch strategy: element of surprise, launch the iPhone and for that matter Apple TV when they were ready and make a big splash. Now with months of hype, none of the iPhone features seem that breakthrough.
its pretty bad for email, could not get a sentence in without multiple backspace uses. Does not sync Calendar and Contacts with Exchange, which means i cant use it. So am going back to Blackjack (3G, Keypad, Exchange that works) :-)
if i do switch back to iPhone, you'll read it here.
-D
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