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Found Footage: iPhone Consumer Revolt (NSFW)

by Erica Sadun Aug 17th 2009 at 4:30PM

Forget about everything else. The cool consumer rage is currently directed at AT&T. Pat Lee, a Chicago iPhone user, is asking the iPhone community to petition Apple to drop AT&T exclusivity. In this biting 30-second video, Lee suggests that disgruntled users voice their displeasure about "less bars in more places." He points viewers to Apple's feedback page to get their AT&T hate on.

Created in Adobe After Effects, the video has great production values and a stinging message. Oh, and it's not especially safe for work. So you might want to bookmark this for later.

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Chase

Should be "fewer bars in more places."

August 18 2009 at 4:12 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dylan

I've had no problems with my AT&T service. At home, I have full 5 bars where ever I go. Pretty much EVERYWHERE I go I have 5 bars (Except at school. Whenever I'm in the computer room I never have any service, but I blame the 20 so computers in there, or in one of the surrounded rooms (The room with other rooms on every side of it, I get 2 or 3 But everywhere else is good!)

August 18 2009 at 11:47 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
JustJoe

I have been really satisfied with ATT. I live in Kansas City so I don't know if that has anything to do with it, but my iphone has worked like a jewel in NYC, Boston, Dallas, Houston, Hawaii, St Louis and Door County Wisconsin (I did have to go outside up there, but the nearest tower was a ways away)

August 18 2009 at 11:24 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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brian Nesbitt

i live in dallas, 6 blocks south of downtown. my building is the second tallest building in any direction for about a half mile. sitting at my window, facing southeast about 200 yards from an at&t tower i drop calls multiple times a day. there are 3-4 places in dallas that i drive past almost every day, that i will always drop calls. these are not rural areas, they are on major highways in the middle of the city.

i use my phone a fair amount and i drop several calls every day. there are many times that i will get a voice message even though the phone never rang. the google maps application routinely reports me being in a location over 8 miles from where i live.

i finally took my phone to apple yesterday where they replaced it (although not without telling me it's the last time they will do so, even if the phone is under warranty) but warned me that the majority of the trouble i was having was due to at&t's network. even apple knows that at&t sucks but they don't do anything about it. it is time they dump at&t.

August 18 2009 at 12:30 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jason

All the complaining about AT&T is making me nervous about switching from Verizon just for the iPhone. Verizon has crappy phones, but their network is excellent and I can count on one hand the number of calls I've had dropped in the five years I've been with VZW.

August 18 2009 at 9:18 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
mjm007

Dont have an issues with at&t on my iPhone, actually has worked great everywhere I travel, dont know why so much bashing on them?

August 18 2009 at 9:03 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
robogobo

"fewer bars", not "less bars".

August 18 2009 at 7:15 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Allan

Never a problem with AT&T. YMMV.

August 18 2009 at 5:06 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jonathan Payne

Yes - O2's 3G network is extremely slow most of the time. Connecting to the network is the worse, where that can take anywhere from 2 to 10 seconds or worse, averaging around 8.

Completely unreliable.

I always feel that AT&T (at least in the Bay Area) seems to work quite well for my friends when I am there. Just depends where you live.

My best experience was outside London sort of in the middle of nowhere. Almost wi-fi-like connectivity, nobody around there competing for my bandwidth.

August 18 2009 at 4:40 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
LifeSux

wow, high production value and low content value. How about spending more time making the case with facts instead of flashy flying letters. Then we might actually have something to SAY to apple.

August 18 2009 at 3:26 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
icepod

Here's what I sent:

"Well, like everyone else must be writing, here is another email requesting that Apple removes its ties to AT&T. Or ask AT&T to provide better and complete service, service that should be at least up to par with the iPhone's features.

A while back, there was alot I couldn't do on my MacBook Pro. Why? Because my ISP was Comcast. and their service sucked! So I switched to Verizon FIOS and now I'm happy.

Unfortunatelly, I can't switch from AT&T...so there's something wrong there. Bad coverage, incomplete feature availability...

Apple has always been great in my eyes, please keep it that way and get rid or improve AT&T's comitment to the iPhone endeavour.

Thank you very much!"

August 18 2009 at 2:00 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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