Alright, so, a little update. I went to the Apple Store here in Green Hills with my roommate Chris and a buddy, Josh. I was just gonna get a power adapter for my Macbook Pro (Turns out that even though I’d already cleared it with AppleCare online, they’d still like to look at it in-store to make sure of the problem. Take a look at it now, you ask? Sorry, the Genius Bar is closed. You can buy an adapter and return it later… Great.)
It also turns out that Josh didn’t just want to look at an iPhone, he wanted to buy one. And instead of coming with us to dinner, he was gonna wait in line for it. It looked like there were about 200-300 people in front of him. “Alright, we’re gonna go eat at Carrabba’s, and we’ll meet you at the tree.” (The tree was 10 feet ahead. It was hilarious at the time, I promise.)
Gotta give it to the folks at the Apple Store, they really know how to work a line through the store quickly. We got back an hour later and Josh was sitting with his sleek, shiny new 8G iPhone beaming with joy and activating it on iTunes. It had only taken him about 45 minutes to get through and get his iPhone. Impressive. And iPhone is especially impressive. Seriously, it is a super cool gadgetron (I figure it’s more than just a mere gadget). Everything is great about it except for the network it’s on. AT&T? Really?
We all went to a local restaurant to chill later on tonight, and on one side of the normal 4-top table the phone had full bars. On the other side, zilch. Good thing the restaurant had Wi-Fi or we wouldn’t have been able to watch YouTube videos. (Which, for the time being, aren’t very plentiful… the search function doesn’t turn up much. My guess is that iPhone is only showing videos encoded with the H.264 codec, and YouTube isn’t very far along in the process of re-encoding all the videos.)
Like I said, maybe I’d get one if it were with Verizon (even though they’re notorious for crippling all the cool features of their phones). I like everything about AT&T’s service except the network. Rollover minutes are cool. Not locking my phone down is cool. The network blows. Verizon’s network with AT&T’s everything else… that would be a great plan. I mean, or AT&T could quit having a terrible network. Then I’ll get an iPhone.
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