Posts about Gizmodo as of July 18, 2009
07/19/2009
AT&T Is A Big, Steaming Heap Of Failure – venture.name 07/18/2009 When Om Malik of GigaOM said he was breaking up with his iPhone 5 months ago because of the failures of AT&T, I must admit, I thought he was overreacting. I was wrong. Since I switched to AT&T from Verizon just over 2 years ago to get the iPhone (which, of course, AT&T has exclusively in the U.S.), there have been no shortage of shortcomings by AT&T. But as of late, I’ve been noticing things getting much, much worse.
07/19/2009
There are a lot of people who enjoy their Kindles. I’ve takena hard line on buying stuff with DRM because of things like this: Amazon remotely deletes Orwell e-books from Kindles, unpersons reportedly unhappy. A Kindle version of Orwell’s 1984 was from a publisher that didn’t have rights to the book, so Amazon went ahead and used the DRM to delete the book from people’s Kindles. So far we have seen them turn off text-to-speech, canceling accounts and locking Kindles up, and throwing in all
07/19/2009
Saturday, July 18th, 2009 by Steven 0 Add a CommentWhen Om Malik of GigaOM said he was breaking up with his iPhone 5 months ago because of the failures of AT&T, I must admit, I thought he was overreacting. I was wrong.Since I switched to AT&T from Verizon just over 2 years ago to get the iPhone (which, of course, AT&T has exclusively in the U.S.), there have been no shortage of shortcomings by AT&T. But as of late, I’ve been noticing things getting much, much worse. And I’m hardly the only one.
07/18/2009
When Om Malik of GigaOM said he was breaking up with his iPhone 5 months ago because of the failures of AT&T, I must admit, I thought he was overreacting. I was wrong. Since I switched to AT&T from Verizon just over 2 years ago to get the iPhone (which, of course, AT&T has exclusively in the U.S.), there have been no shortage of shortcomings by AT&T. But as of late, I’ve been noticing things getting much, much worse. And I’m hardly the only one . And so it’s time to call out AT&T on those failures.
07/18/2009
Many of our Gizmodo ‘79 posts have illustrated just how far we’ve come in…



