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The US is arming Sunni groups who have said they will battle their former Al Qaeda allies. What could possibly go wrong?
WWDC starts today. Pretty interested to see what Jobs is going to talk about for ninety minutes. iPhone features we haven’t heard yet? New desktop-class machine? Mac Mini going away? New non-iPhone iPod? Lots of Leopard stuff? Ars Technica has their keynote bingo scorecard up, so we can play along at home.
Bush gets a hero’s welcome in Albania. Maybe they’d like to keep him?
Tim @ The New AT&T ran my credit check and tells me I will need no security deposit. That is exciting, as it means it will be easy for me to switch carriers, and it means my credit is improving.
He’s going to call me on the morning of 6/29 to sell me an iPhone and switch me over to AT&T.
I guess I have until then to decide if I really want to jump on that bandwagon right away (as I do desperately need a new phone) or get one of their lesser model freebies that they give away with new accounts. The problem with option #2 is that I know I will eventually want to upgrade to an iPhone, which will certainly reset my contract if I want any discount on it at all, and will still likely be more expensive than if I was a brand new customer immediately buying one. I’ve always found it pretty crappy that a new customer gets a better deal on new technology than a customer that has been supporting a cell phone carrier for much longer.
So, my phone bricked today. I’ve already hard-reset it and reinstalled Windows Mobile and a couple of my must-have applications. I figured it would be a good idea to call T-Mobile and see if they have a way for me to download Windows Mobile 6 to upgrade my phone. They, of course, do not. They don’t even carry the MDA anymore, so my phone is basically outdated and will be getting no support.
I want to switch to AT&T so that I can pick up an iPhone. I was going to wait until January or so, to allow any kinks in the new device to be worked out before I bought one. My early-adopter mentality already burned me once, with the Sidekick and Sidekick II. With the problems I’m having on my current phone, I’d like to just switch now, since the iPhone comes out on the 29th of this month, and AT&T can just give me a free phone in the mean time… But I’ll probably have to pay ANOTHER security deposit for AT&T, even though my account has been in good standing with T-Mobile for something like 6 years, and I’ve already paid a security deposit there (and kept my account in good standing, and got my security deposit BACK from T-Mobile)
The whole idea of a security deposit for a mobile phone plan makes zero sense to me at all. I mean, I’m paying you for the device ($599 in the case of the iPhone), I’m paying you every month for the service… And what happens if I don’t pay? You simply cut off the service! I don’t see the point in a 2-year contract, or security deposits or any of it. Just take my money and give me my service. It is ridiculously simple.
I don’t think I’ll ever understand why so much in life depends on my fucking credit score.
“Thundercats” to Roar on the Big Screen - TMZ.com
This is awesome. Hopefully they don’t fuck it up.
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