“@tim. I’m of the firm belief that customers should always do their best to get away with as much they can, no matter how seemingly unreasonable. It’s the only way capitalism works. So if people want to try and change providers, and then complain when they end up with bricks, let them. I want to see if it nets them anything, and if it does, good for them.”
You do realize the enormous costs this sort of behavior costs us, don’t you, Ibrahim? Billions spent on copyright enforcement, copy protection, law enforcement, etc, any of that ring a bell? Everything works better if both sides play by the rules.

If it wasn’t for Apple’s insanely annoying commercials, I might actually own an IPhone. I can’t imagine how their marketing campaigns are actually successes. They’re just awful.
Also, I’d never have had to consider an IPhone if advanced phones from other companies actually made it to this country. What the heck is going on? Of the 20 or so Nokias of higher notation than the N73, only 2 (I think) are sold here. There are a ton of phones that blow the iphone away in performance of many/most tasks (though the iphone does have the great screen). They’re just not sold here.

I kept getting calls from AT & T asking me if I wanted this service or that. I kept saying, ‘Take me off your phone list. I don’t want anything you’ve got.’

“Well, sir, it takes up to 60 days for you to be removed from our list.”

‘Ma’am, I’ve been here a year. I’ve gotten these calls for months. Your 60 days have come and gone SIX times. I will never buy an AT & T product. I don’t like the way your company does business and I never want to hear from you again. I hope I’ve been clear.”

“Yes sir.”

I never heard from them again but they’re worse than Jehovah’s witnesses.

And the iPhone pwns. You all know it deep down in your dark little hearts.

” Why do something intelligent in advance, when you can wait until the last minute and do something truly idiotic? “

I just wish people would blow ATM fees out of the water, there are a few places that don’t have them and can’t get them, just because of the consumer backlash.

As Boing Boing pointedout (http://www.boingboing.net/2007/10/02/att-snowjob-we-wont.html): “If AT&T sincerely doesn’t ever intend on cutting you off for criticizing them, they can amend their terms of service to say exactly that. It’s not as though the legalese came off a mountain on two stone tablets and changing them counts as blasphemy.”

You two do have a point.

I used to be a cingular customer ’till AT&T took over. Now I’m stuck with them. Funny thing, though: I was ready to bite the bullet and take whatever penalties it took to quit Cingular. They were that bad.
Then AT&T took over, and they didn’t blow quite as much as Cingular did. That said, I am willing to let my contract run out and then quit.

The thing is, nobody I’ve talked to seems to have had better luck with any other company.

Oh, and her glasses: they are even hotter when worn with the neck cord!