I’ve purchased each iPhone since the first one I owned, the iPhone 3G. The experience of pre-ordering online is so significantly better than camping outside the store from the wee-hours of the morning that I can’t even describe. Perhaps a bit less fun, though.
For the first time I’m also leaving AT&T. Although their service is acceptable, their coverage, customer service and increasingly ridiculous pricing plans1 are too much for me to handle. To Verizon I go, where I hope the LTE experience in a subsequent iPhone makes playing the long game here more acceptable.
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Not to mention AT&T’s subsidy arrangements are confusing at best. A friend’s availability date with AT&T is 3 months ahead of mine, and her contract begins the day after mine. ↩
