Singing the praises of Windows Phone 7, and who really is to blame for iPhone problems?
I just got this rather interesting email from a longtime friend, who I trust implicitly, of an exchange he had with a very close friend of his who works for a major wireless provider in the U.S.
It provides some interesting thoughts on the iPhone and how some carriers are actually looking forward to carrying the Windows Phone 7.
I called up a friend of mine in [ed: city name removed] who has worked in
AT&TWireless support for years. I probably hadn’t talked to her in a year, and the first thing out of her mouth was, “I fucking hate Steve Jobs. I hate him.” Then she went on to affirm what I had long suspected, which was that the “problems” long associated with the iPhone are all due to the phone and not theAT&T’snetwork. She said, “The iPhone is like the little brother who is constantly poking you yelling “Hey! Hey! HEY!” and it makes the network go crazy.”Then, she literally started *SINGING* “Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of The Phone…”
Yes…she was talking about WP7. “Aren’t they..beautiful?”
When I told her that I’d probably go with T-Mo because of the prices she said, “Hey, I don’t blame you. Customers vote with their dollar.”
I know that like my friend I would be lining up on launch day here in Canada to get my hands on one of the new Windows Phone 7′s, but given that I am still in the first year of a three year contract with Telus, my chances are really slim.
[Cross-posted at Winextra]
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