car industry
imagine Kia bribing Mercedes car owners to abandon their benz for Rio.
a delightful joke indeed.
T-Mobile has instituted a tried-and-true incentive to induce iPhone users to switch to their HTC HD2: bribery. The wireless carrier, based in Bellevue, Washington - a stone's throw from Microsoft's Redmond digs - will slip apostate iPhone owners $100 to $350 if they trade in their working Cupertinian smartphones for HTC's hot- …
Of course your Kia will work quite happily for as long as you want it to at minimal cost, while with the Merc you'll be paying a never ending series of eye-wateringly large bills.
Than again, maybe the analogy holds here too?
Oh.....hang on....HTC hardware? This one's busted.....
I must be mad then because I've JUST got a HD2 and it is absolutely awesome. Although I'm not a "fan" of WinMo it, to me, seems like the lesser of three evils. The iPhone is, personally, far too restrictive and side-by-side with the HD2 looks like a Fisher Price style "My First Phone". Android is a no-go as I'm not giving Google access to my "offline" comms as they attempt* to do with my "online" activities.
Besides, the efforts HTC have gone to to hide WinMo are quite amazing really. Yes, you do sometimes get confronted by WinMo but I'd say its only if you are a bit of a nerd wanting to do nerdy things with your phone (like I do!). I reckon someone who just wants to use a kick-ass camera phone with a slick interface, as a camera phone, would very, very rarely, if at all, have to encounter any raw WimMo screens.
* FF and NoScript to the rescue. It staggers me no-end the sheer amount of sites that reference the Google analytics and Google domains.
I don't understand this. I'd expect to pay a modest fee to trade in and upgrade a phone. You're saying the phone company pays their own customers to upgrade? Why?
Or... are they paying other-company customers upfront to switch to them?
You know how when a deal sounds too good to be true, it probably isn't true?
firstly that just continues the precedent of phone companies shafting their existing loyal customers who are dumb enough to be on contract by making them pay retail - and even if I was due a new phone the discounts are still not as good as for a new incoming customer... and to rub salt in the wound they'll now pay for you to dump your fruitphone as well. greee
secondly the HD2 while a lovely slab of a phone is lumbered with a lot of the HTC front-end which while really pretty is a bit of a dog for performance and stability and if this is just a base 6.5 device that means it's 3 service packs behind (according to XDA Developers the current builds are 6.5.3, and it's in the SE Faith - http://www.unwiredview.com/2010/02/02/sony-ericsson-aspen-faith-with-wm-6-5-3-officially-announced/)
I'm not an iPhone fan, and I'd love a T-Mo HD2 (because they've got different 3G to everyone else in the US so it limits the choices) but when it looks like I'll need to pay more than I did for my first car...