[Novalug] iPhone data bills - OMG!!!

[Steve Gula]

from the article: "I'm a web developer as part of my career and I couldn't
even tell you how many KB the average web page is, no less a text message to
my son, an e-mail with a photo to my mother, or a quick check of Google
Maps. "

Wow. If a mechanic ever said "I change oil as part of my career but I
couldn't even tell you how many quarts the average vehicle uses, no less my
own car," I don't think he'd be my mechanic anymore.

Proves once again that just because a person works in IT doesn't mean they
know anything about IT.

On 8/1/07, Ken Kauffman <kkauffman at headfog.com> wrote:
>
> It's a way for someone to scoop a story by using the new marketing
> buzzword
> iPhone.  There are tons of idiots that don't ask appropriate questions
> about
> their plans and come up with excessive bills, it's just their
> smartphone/pdaphones aren't "cool" and all over the media right now.
>
> K
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: novalug-bounces at calypso.tux.org
> [mailto:novalug-bounces at calypso.tux.org] On Behalf Of Rich Goodwin
> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 9:23 AM
> To: NOVALUG
> Subject: Re: [Novalug] iPhone data bills - OMG!!!
>
> It's kinda funny.  With hindsight being 20/15 ... it is easy to see the
> issues.  But going into the situation, how many of us would fully consider
> the overall costs?
>
> Greg said AT&T did the right thing - I agree.  Since we don't have the
> breakdown of the bill, much of the cost could be from the overseas
> corporations. So, it is possible that AT&T ... er ... 'scuse me ...
> at&t .... ;-) .... may really have absorbed some real costs.
>
> When I read this, I saw someone who did the cursory check of the plans and
> costs and ASSUMED he was getting the full story.  We all do this.
> So my intent was to help us all think a bit broader when dealing with the
> companies and not getting wrapped up into hype.
>
> On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 05:57 -0700, Ken Firestone wrote:
> > On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, David A. Cafaro wrote:
> >
> >    Personally I think the guy was an idiot.  He's a so called web
> >    developer and has no idea how much bandwidth a webpage takes?
> >
> > Web developer knows how much badwidth a webpage takes? Surely you
> > jest? Most of the developer/designers I have worked with didn't have a
> > clue about the size of the pages they were designing, or the
> > experience created for their users. "But it looks fine on my computer
> > when I load it from C:"
> >
> >
> >
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