User: CS2006
These are the most recent forum messages posted by CS2006:
Re: You're right, Apple could be a fad
I believe the iPhone will merely be one more choice in a crowded marketplace. I don't believe it is a fad, but in a crowded marketplace of lower priced, open source options Apple could lose relevance. It had its run of being a cult phenomenon but it costs too much, is only available on 1 carrier at this time and the comptition is as good as and getting better than them all of the time.
Android is the future simply ...
Re: Yep - Grapevine is a tester
It is both.
The Target will become a SWAS for RS, but many others will be the retailers space with RS sales staff.
Re: Uh Oh
Sucks to be one of your unlucky customers
Re: Way to go, US Copyright Office!
How do you figure it is better for the consumer? So I end my contract with AT&T with my smartphone, get it unlocked and take it to T-Mobile. I have an old smartphone with an old battery and T-Mobile is dancing in the streets because they did not have to buy me a phone. Not only that but they won't let me upgrade for 22 months. I am now 46 months with the same phone before I can get ...
Difference between corporate retail and dealers
When T-Mobile, AT&T or Verizon offer an early upgrade it is only honored in corporate stores. As a national retail store manager it can be a bit frustrating but it is a fact of life in the industry. For that HD2 your choice is to go to WalMart and pay 499.00 for the phone or half of that at a corporate store. None of these carriers bend for dealers.
With Sprint it is different because they offer a half ...
Re: Really??
Precisely. In the 90's Sony could do no wrong. Even their Directv receiver that had a 100% failure rate was considered acceptable by the public. Other than the fact that it often did not receive a satellite signal it was a great device. Directv had to fix that one since Sony did not own up to it. Much like Apple throws AT&T under the bus whenever there is an iPhone issue. Does history repeat itself?
Re: Captivate
How about talking on the Sprint network and surfing on the WIMAX network with the Epic?
But I am happy to see another Android phone on AT&T.
Re: Oh hey, it doesn't work. That sucks, I'LL RETURN IT
I agree. We do live in a litigious society. No one benefits but the trial lawyers. The Samsung Blade on Sprint had a similar issue, except that the antenna was covered by an aluminum case. (How'd that get past QC?)
What is unfortunate is the Apple response. Offer to fix the problem, apologize and take your lumps.
Re: Really??
iZombies is harsh. There are Ford men and Chevy men, iPhone people and Android people. I will admit that people's veneration of Apple is not deserved but it is a great device. Apple is not a good corporate citizen but their brand is hot. It will not always be this way. Hot brands are like tides, they come and go. Some last longer than others. Eventually they succumb to competition, mistakes that they make (like Sony) or the public ...
Re: blue, three words...
Android phones are now selling at a higher rate than iPhones. There will be a spike when the iPhone 4 comes out but reality is it's Apple against the rest of the industry. If they continue with the crap like the way this launch is being handled no one will like or trust them. you can only play people for so long before they have had enough and abandon you. Apple has a long history of playing the public ...
Re: Bluecoyote translates your post.
How nice of you to read my mind and say what I could not say due to my limited intellect.
On your planet is there anyone who can communicate other than you? I have told you I have respect for the iPhone Why did you not translate that?
You talk like you are some high level developer but you appear to be totally ignorant of how a user's experience matters. Are you so far into the world of ones and ...
Re: Bullcrap
I sell Android AND iPhone. Why would I spit in my own soup? I was careful to say iPhone 3GS and not claim to have an iphone 4. I quoted the app which is common to both.
Why this religious devotion to Apple? They are a mere manufacturer. Why do people allow a company to control their entire experience with the product. it makes no sense. Isn't open source better than being controlled?
Re: There aren't any AT&T Customers looking for a good Android phone
Why is there such an assumption that everyone wants an iPhone? Android is not an iPhone wanna be it is a great standard in itself.
The iPhone is a great device, no question but Android is very powerful and user friendly. The base of apps is growing quickly. The majority of the apps are free unlike going through iTunes.
Most of what you are saying is your opinion and cannot really be proven.
We deal with plenty of defective ...
Re: Bullcrap
Why is it that you never can admit that there are other devices out there that top the iPhone?
I am not making it up, the EVO is way more responsive. I even told you which app I was using so you could try it yourself.
The EVO tops the 3GS in almost everything from a users point of view. We will see about the iPhone 4 which I will also sell.
Re: Too late!!!
THe spectrum they allocated did. They allocated more so the experience should be better.
Re: $200.00??? They're going to sell 4 of these.
I'll sell 4 the first week it is out to my AT&T customers who want a good Android phone.
Re: $200.00??? They're going to sell 4 of these.
We put the 3GS next to the Evo running a game app that is common to Android and the iPhone (LineUp) The Evo's screen is much more responsive than the iPhone's. The iPhone often does not recognize a tap on the screen. The Evo always recognizes the taps. Game play on the Evo is far superior to the iPhone.
What are you saying about HTC trash? After spending a week comparing the two and then to make it ...
Re: iPhone 4 and iChat laughs at you!
Why does Apple not build efficiencies into their devices? The problem is not AT&T, they have way more 3G bandwidth than anyone else. But the iPhone does not even attempt to be network friendly. They don't think it is their problem. They are perfectly willing to throw their carrier partner under the bus.
Design a device that does not assume that the network exists only for it. But that is not the Apple way.
We sell both the EVO ...
Re: Major Selling Point not ready?
I think we have a case of hypocrisy when you compare it to the iPhone.
Pre iphone none of the iPhone's capabilities existed. How many apps were available at launch for the original iphone? Very few and what was available was laughable because it was things that already existed on Virgin Mobile $30.00 phones. How long did it take for the iPhone to be able to send pictures over MMS (not as an email attachment)?
Would anyone say that Apple ...
Re: The only law should be a one liner repealing all existing telecom laws.
And the market does decide. Consider AT&T, the former company not SBC renamed and rebranded. They became stagnant and lost incredible amounts of market share to competitors who provided a better product at a better price. The same could happen to Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile. The consuming public is not a bunch of idiots. They are loyal to a service provider only as long as that provider is loyal to them.
There are two types of telecom companies, ...
Re: The only law should be a one liner repealing all existing telecom laws.
Somehow I sense either a misunderstanding or a distrust of a market driven economy. If something is as unpopular with consumers as you appear to believe contracts are then someone would offer a popular alternative and the rest of the market would follow in order to keep their customer base.
The reality is that the industry could not afford to grow and expand without the contracts. Without this financial model we would probably still be using either analog or ...
Re: SMH
Giving the FCC power over contracts could undermine the entire economic system. (See Dartmouth college v New Hampshire) Just because it is unpopular does not mean it should be regulated by the government. If it was as unpopular as you make it seem then it would not be economically sustainable and the carriers would change their approach.
If you don't want to sign a contract you can go with a no contract option which every carrier offers.
Re: Expensive plans!!!!!
The current WIMAX platform is 802.16e. It can burst at 40mbps and frequently runs at 20mbps. Clear often caps the speeds to provide a consistent user experience. Even so we get anywhere from 6-12mbps in my store. The next level of WIMAX is 802.16m which will burst at 1gbs and provide speeds in the 50-100mbps range. LTE at this time is delivering 20-50mbps on dormant networks. This is the same argument that GSM fans used that EVDO is not ...
Re: That's how I originally remember it. . .
I can say the same thing about my 2 winmo phones. They have never crashed, glitched or shut down on me. I don't remember the last dropped call I have had. I loan my Samsung to people to use AT&T's network in rural areas when their iPhone cannot make a call or send a text.
And the bonus is that since I use windows at work and at home I already know how to use it and my word/Excel and ...
Re: Paid lessons?
If someone buys a phone from WalMart then they need to go to WalMart for their service. If enough people have a bad service experience at WalMart then they won't do their wireless business there. If they buy the phone online then they are just up a creek as far as I am concerned.
People need to understand that where you buy your phone is where the service needs to come from, you are their customer. If someone buys ...
Re: Goodbye "The Shack"
The sales training is actually quite good, it borrows a lot from Carnegie in its process. The real problem is that often you get an arrogant associate who is really a rotten salesperson but thinks they are God's gift because they can manipulate their customers into buying. I have no time for these simpletons. Sometimes we get a former third party salesperson from another dealer and they end up being able to generate numbers but no customer loyalty.
With ...
Re: Goodbye "The Shack"
Jay, I think it's important to remember that in every company that sells a product or service, especially a complex service like wireless has good and bad people. It sounds like you are one of the ones who are careful to ensure customer satifaction.
I have been connected to the wireless business for over 20 years and I have seen a very wide variety of personalities. I have worked for a wireless carrier store and found them to be ...
It hasn't happened yet
These reports are a few months old. First it was Apollo Management now Best Buy. It wold have to be a merger since Best Buy probably does not have the money for an acquisition of this size without putting themselves in a bad way.
Maybe nothing will happen and maybe these reports are reliable. Time will tell.
Re: I dont understand?????
The management team has the history of fixing a broken retailer and then selling them off and moving on.
Re: Goodbye "The Shack"
Give it a rest! You can't knock success. If you want to talk about know nothings just take a stroll through the local mall and talk to the average knights of the kiosks. Many have no idea what 3G is or what the difference between GSM and CDMA is. They also like to feature slam to make more commission.
As a professional sales manager I am sickened by some of the sales behaviors I see in these kiosks. Yes ...
Re: i think i'm going to be sick
It's hard to go under with a billion dollars of cash. The company is growing sales and profits and generally moving in the right direction.
Re: WiMax's track record
Absolutely. They also don't have the bandwidth limitations that the others will incur in the 700mhz band. LTE will have a bit better range from tower due to the frequency and it will penetrate structures better but that can be handled with more towers.
I believe Sprint is being very customer centric with this. Much will depend on what applications become available and how they interface with customer lifestyles.
Re: LTE Vs. WiMax
LTE is at this time the ultimate vaporware. Somehow they have convinced a ton of people that they are the ultimate developers of technology. A reliable competitive product could be a few years out
Re: WiMax's track record
Oh but it is the EU. They are a socialist block that must bless everything that comes out. They absolutely outlawed CDMA (with heavy lobbying by infrastructure manufacturers) and they insisted that the 4G network be designed in Europe. It is all about protecting the home industries and then insist that the rest of the world bow to their wireless wisdom.
Don't you remember what a fiasco the initial rollout of UMTS was? Why would you expect anything different with ...
Re: wasnt there a phone called the moto droid or was that a thing of the past?
And the suckers who bought the first iPhone had to wait 2 years to send pictures as well as buy a new phone. :lol:
Re: Way less than the sum of its parts
Why would Clear switch to LTE? WIMAX is performing very well. The partnerships also have deeper pockets than those of the LTE group. LTE shows that the EU and especially Ericsson will never support any standard not created in Europe. Even though WIMAX can be deployed very cost effectively they require a homegrown solution and insist that the world agree with them. I believe this is very short sighted.
Re: WiMax's track record
AT&T has intalled HSPA on most if not all of its 3G network. It is very reliable but the data throughputs on their network are maxed out due to the fact that there are 30-40 million iPhones constantly using data services. This much usage was never envisioned by anyone.
T-Mobile is in the process of rolling out HSPA+ which is providing up to 6mbps average speeds in Philly.
Re: WiMax's track record
Abysmal? What is abysmal about it? It is used in most of Asia as a primary internet source. Just because the EU hasn't blessed it does not make it abysmal. I suggest you research your "facts" more clearly or they will be marked as mere claims to be ignored. WIMAX is in my market, it will cover 80 million pops by year's end. It will cover between 150 and 200 million pops by the end of 2011 and by ...
Re: Amazing isn't it
Calm down Apple fan.
People are sarcastic towards Apple because their history has been to litigate competition away. So if that is your reputation then even if your lawsuits are legitimate they will be looked at as frivolous. Take away Apple's legal department and I don't believe they would have survived the 1990's.
Or you could...
Go to RadioShack. We have been doing this for months. Customers can trade in unwanted phones regardless of carrier and get a RadioShack Giftcard. Most phones get between $10 and $50. Some get as much as $200 - $300. It is a great tool to help customers buy the phone they really want and did not think they could afford.
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