Smash Your iPhone
The major wireless carriers in America are legalized gangsters who shake down excessive use fees in exchange for access to their network. AT&T is particularly evil because they use their profits to lobby against net neutrality, permit warrantless NSA wiretaps, and are on the precipice of assisting the RIAA and MPAA with Draconian Internet monitoring. When you buy an iPhone, you’re donating at least $2144 towards the erosion of your civil liberties and the destruction of the open Internet. It saddens me to see thousands of people wait in line to patronize a corporation that is hostile towards their own customers.
The unfortunate reality is that non-Apple phones are so terrible that the iPhone’s debut is equivalent to selling everyone in hell a glass of ice water. The problem is that the Apple water was poisoned by AT&T. Cory Doctorow agrees with a boycott. Dave Winer concludes that AT&T doesn’t deserve to live. I support both of these ideas.
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I used AT&T Wireless in the 2001-2004 timeframe and after years of horrible, declining customer service, I switched to T-Mobile.
They became Cingular to “save the company.” Now it’s back to the AT&T name. What a corporate joke.
Honestly, the #1 reason I am not buying an iPhone is AT&T. #2 is that I will not by 1st Generation tech anymore.
Here are my reasons:
#1: Overpriced monthly charges that you pay are used to lobby Congress to erode my civil liberties in the interest of corporate profits
#2: AT&T willfully permitted warrantless NSA wiretaps and tried to silence whistleblowers
#3: AT&T is blatantly attempting to monitor their own customers at the behest of the RIAA and MPAA
#4: Apple sweatshops
#5: Apple executives firing Big Poppa E for writing a poem they didn’t like! (Think different, but only in an approved different way if you work at Apple).
#6: I was an AT&T Wireless customer from 2003-2005 and quit because of declining customer service.
I’m so angry about all of this that I’m seriously considering a personal boycott of all Apple products.
It saddens me to see thousands of people wait in line to patronize a corporation that is hostile towards their own customers.
You could have stopped at “corporation,” and I still would have been on board. But yes, the things you point out make this corp especially vile.
ditto…saw this link from boingboing…wished i had come up with it…