Do iDo or iDon’t?
Recently I attended the Food & Wine Festival at Epcot. While Florida was graced with a cold front, making it enjoyable to walk around without suffocating from humidity, I encountered major network issues with my iPhone.
Not to beat a horse to death, but come on AT&T! Text messages were slow coming through, applications didn’t run smoothly, phone calls were choppy despite having several bars of service and opening web sites – forget about it!? So, not only did the mass amount of people at Epcot make it hard to keep a comfortable bubble of personal space, but they kept me from Tweeting!
CNET recently published an article, “Is the iPhone Hurting AT&T’s brand?” in which Rob Adler, vice president at Vantage, was quoted as saying, “AT&T can say that there is nothing wrong with their network all they want,” he continued. “But when someone is experiencing dropped calls and no access to the 3G network every day, they take it very personally. And it is very frustrating.”
Frustrating enough that after seeing the “iDon’t” ads from Verizon Wireless and reading this article from The New York Times though, I’m starting to wonder if people will sacrifice the Apple brand for Verizon/Google/Motorola Droid.
Just like the Mac vs. PC commercials, Droid’s ads continue to poke fun at Apple. While I wouldn’t give up my Mac at home, frankly, these AT&T network issues are quite a drag and joining Matt Marshall as a soon-to-be Droid user isn’t sounding too shabby! Consumers want reliability in any product they purchase. If you pay $200-$300 for an iPhone, plus the elaborate service plan each month, you want a network that works – and AT&T just isn’t cutting it these days.
Written by Marie GoltaraLast 3 posts by mgoltara
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Tags: Apple, AT&T, CNET, iPhone, iPhone 3G, Vantage Communications, Verizon, Verizon Wireless
October 29th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
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