Survey Says Most iPhone Users Love AT&T 490
Hugh Pickens writes "In a report sure to raise eyebrows, CNN Money claims that despite a very vocal group of detractors, the vast majority of iPhone users love AT&T. A survey released this week by Yankee Group reports that 73% of iPhone owners scored their satisfaction with the carrier as an 8, 9, or 10 on a 10-point scale. The results seem surprising, given the pounding AT&T has taken in the media and on the blogosphere about its service-related issues with the iPhone and AT&T's recent iPad-related security glitch. For its part, AT&T says its network really isn't as bad as many people think. 'There's a gap between what people hear about us and what their experience is with us. We think that gap is beginning to close,' says Mark Siegel, an AT&T spokesman. 'It doesn't mean we're perfect; we still have work to do. But that's no surprise to us, because we have a great network.'" Buried in the penultimate paragraph is the somewhat alarming note that "77% of iPhone owners say they'll buy another iPhone, compared to 20% of Android customers who say they'll buy another Android phone."
Alarming!? (Score:1, Funny)
OMG, that is alarming! Someone call fox news!
Posted from my iPad.
Obligatory (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:What a joke of a survey. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Ignorance (Score:4, Funny)
You did the switch wrong. If you aren't a Mac-fanboy you need to find the relative that is the one that gets fed up and tries a Mac and begins drinking the kool-aid. Then you need to let them evangelize Macs so your other relatives purchase them. Then when a computer eventually has a problem, HDD crashes, they delete something they didn't want to, who knows. When they come to you for help you just turn around and say, "I don't know/support Macs". At this point you are no longer the family tech support guy.
Re:Ignorance (Score:5, Funny)
If I were to write a Mac OS X virus and prove that it works, is there any chance you'll quit saying that? No? Didn't think so.
I think if you wrote a Mac OS X virus Steve Jobs would drive to your house and ask you to stop it. He's a very persuasive guy. ;-)
This just in... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Ignorance (Score:5, Funny)
Enough with the self-righteous anti-fanboy shit. Your generalization of "Apple users" is insulting and wrong.
But... but.. but... the headlines on all the ad-supported news sites and blogs I read say that Apple phones don't work, the factory workers kill themselves, no apps get approved, moisture sensors get tripped, there are useful features on the phone but you don't really want to jailbreak it, and that the iPad is a clone of an unsuccessful device from the 90's. Based on that, only millions of exceptionally stupid people would buy the phone!!1!
Re:Ignorance (Score:2, Funny)
My iPhone drops a *lot* of calls - at least a few every day
You're holding it wrong!!
Re:Ignorance (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Ignorance (Score:3, Funny)
I'm guessing he got it from the same place I did, by observing the victims firsthand.
Of course we love AT&T (Score:1, Funny)
in the AT&T terms of services it says if we write anything bad or negative about AT&T they have the right to cancel our services and ban us from ever using them again. What is there not to love?
I mean AT&T even has a Death Star Logo, and a real live Death Star out there somewhere, so the Empire er ah sorry AT&T will send in their Stormtroopers er ah employees and contractors to remove our services if we do say, type, or post anything negative or bad about them. Now I don't want a lightsaber duel with Darth Vader any more than the rest of us do, and hope his son Luke Skywalker comes back to turn him away from The Dark Side and back to being a Jedi again. But until that happens we all love AT&T, or else.
Not like AT&T is a monopoly any more, nor that Apple prevents others from using other cell phone companies and thus create a virtual monopoly for iPhone cell and G3/G4 services. But anyway I cannot afford an iPhone but use AT&T DSL. I mean it is no AOL or even Juno or NetZero, but hey it works. Not like I really needed the bandwidth anyway and the lost Internet connections and resetting the DSL modem and router several times a day gave me enough exercise to lose 15 pounds in a month. So I call it my AT&T DSL Diet and Exercise plan as I lose my appetite from all the worrying that my Internet connection is going to last or get cut off. That is why I love it, Big brother er ah AT&T that is, who monitor everything I type. Besides the downtime from not being on the Internet as much made me saner.