Steve Job's at D8 (from engadget.com)
I was reading through engadget’s live blog of Steve Job’s interview from D8 and something caught my attention. Check out this excerpt:
6:54PM Steve: Well it wasn’t like this. Now it’s huge. And also, when you bought a phone the carrier dictated what you had on the phone. iPhone was the first phone where we said you worry about the network, we’ll worry about the phone/.Walt: How are they doing on that network?
6:54PM Steve: Pretty good actually. Remember, they’re handling WAY MORE data traffic than all of their other competitors combined.Â(excerpt from engadget’s live blog of Steve Job’s interview from D8)
Did you catch that? “…they’re handling WAY MORE data traffic than all of their other competitors combined.” I’m pointing this out for all of you whiner babies who complain about AT&T’s network or gripe about how much better Verizon would do with the iPhone… Blah, Blah, Blah… There it is, straight from the horse’s mouth! AT&T has more traffic than all of their competitors and does pretty well with it. They are improving their service as quickly as they can. I dare say, it is probably ALOT harder to upgrade a network where every city is different, than it is to create one new device and make a billion copies. So the phones, tablets, netbooks, etc… are going to advance far faster than ANYONE (Verizon included) can upgrade their network.Â
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So for now… I’m happy to be on AT&T, just like I have been for almost a decade. Boom!
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