Keep missing the mark
I keep hearing the cry to lower the prices of smart phones, well I have one for you. Lower the prices of their monthly plan.
If you put your money down for an iPhone you are going to pay about $70 a month for a two year plan (yes that comes out to $1680).
Granted it comes with unlimited data on the abysmal AT&T network, but it is usable. If you buy a Blackberry from Verizon it’s mandatory that you get a data plan and if you want to switch phones the “Blackberry data plan” is not the same as the “Android data plan”.
I went into a Verizon store last week, my daughter has an enV Touch, and my wife who hasn’t had a new phone in years wanted to upgrade her old flip phone. I went in and asked for the month to month price on the phone, because I don’t want to extended my contract 2by two years they told my $409, I told them OK, then they said that this phone has a mandatory $9.99 a month data plan. What ? My daughter’s enV Touch has no such attachment. I was informed it is on all new enV Touch phones from November 2009 and onward.
Crap, ok keep sticking it to me. I walked out.
Another thing I noticed, that when buying a song on Amazon, it was $1.29. wait a minute, I though the music industry only made Apple’s iTunes raise their prices ? Not true says Amazon, the recording industry has a scaled pricing for all the music platforms.
Crap, again, where is my BitTorrent client?
No, that’s illegal, I cant do that.
sigh
Oh, wait, happy birthday Sir Isaac Newton.
