Standing On Boxes

I’m not really an advertising connoisseur, so this is all opinion (of course).

My favorite Christmas commercials on tv? (No special order)

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[The following is anecdotal.]

Okay, I bought an iPhone at the beginning of August.

As a device, with the exception of battery life, I like it very much though it hasn’t completely replaced my 1st Gen iPod touch as my main MP3 player (I occasionally knock my touch onto the floor at work due to headphone cord length (and it survives). Don’t really want to do that with the iPhone, which cost me twice as much as the touch.)

As for local cell service — I must be one of the lucky ones. I get excellent connectivity locally – both 3G and voice. (Of course, I bought it more for the data plan than voice so I’m a light voice user. I rarely use 1/4 of my allotted minutes a month. And I don’t do SMS.)

Traveling thru New England back in August? There were a few dead spots along the MassPike and driving along I89 in Vermont. It had improved a LOT by Thanksgiving, in the same areas. (I81 in Virginia? Not as many 3G dead spots in November as in August. My mother lives along the edge of AT&T service along the upper edge of the Adirondacks (in NY). In August? EDGE. In November? 3G.

So it’s getting better in the US, no matter what the Anti-Apple/Anti-AT&T internet echo-chamber denizens claim.

Doing business with AT&T? Well, that has been an adventure.

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