4 posts tagged “at&t”
Jonathan Gitlin at Ars Technica's Infinite Loop mentions what I've been mulling since Monday: the iPod Touch is now a pretty bad deal. The price is higher but the TCO is lower... as long as you don't have a cell phone. I'm not so hot on the new AT&T deal, so I would definitely probably maybe order a 16 GB iPod Touch with GPS at $300. But $410, with no GPS? I hope there's another shoe to drop.
In other Mac news, I had ignored Fluid, but read about it today when I thought it was something else. The Menu Extra feature looks great for iPhone apps like Blog It.
I had complained here briefly about Valve's customer service, as they were taking their sweet time resetting my password (because I myself forgot it and apparently hadn't saved it anywhere, which is obviously completely my fault), but I'd like to take that back as they were nice enough to reset my password on Friday afternoon. So I was able to play more Portal over the weekend, woot.
I also had complained a little about AT&T, but Judy who came out yesterday was awesome. I got to see the phone box in my building, which is weird because Anthony, one of the staff, was taking us down there and in chatting with Judy mentioned that the complex is five years old. Then right there in the telephone room was of all things an unlit Christmas tree, right next to a masking-taped calendar from some construction materials company showing December 2002. Then I got to see Judy's cool stuff, like the toner that she can use to find wires by pretty much pinging down it with this one box, then there's this wand with a speaker that she waved that would play the ping on the speaker when she found the right wire.
So that was cool too.
By way of Global Nerdy, this video of AT&T's "You Will" commercials:
These were on TV when I was 13 and I'm amazed how every single thing is possible now. Joey makes the further point that AT&T isn't responsible for any of the ways you can do them today, but I'm more impressed that all of these happened.
