Part of living in a rural area. I live in Ocala, Florida, not exactly a huge city, but we do have LTE and I get blazing fast reliable internet.

I routinely get 12-10 megs down and 2 up. I can stream and torrent reliably.

Apple was late to the game with LTE.

I used to sell practice management.billing software in the 1990s, and what I found out, that a doctor who was clearing 30k a month in his practice, after all expenses paid, including his salary, was loath to spend 25k to modernize his office, and increase his billing revenue by 10%. Doctors are cheap. An ophthalmologist who cannot afford 10k is probably not one I would go to. One thing Windows did for the medical billing world was force traditional Unix vendors of billing software was to lower their price and up their game.

Let me address a few comments in your post. 1. Pixar was founded Lucas Group, and then later spun off as sep corp with an investment from Steve Jobs. 2. Canon invented that drive, and the Next was hardly consumer hardware and was not marketed with consumers in mind. 3. Next would have tanked without Ross Perots money. So maybe we owe Ross Perot for OSX. Jobs was a great driving force behind Apple an Next, but he wrote no code, nor did he invent Unix, he was just an excellent overseer. He is was a great salesman and marker. But an asshole.

I have a self winding stainless steel rolex. It was given to me for my high school graduation in 1988. My mother bought it at an estate sale for 250 dollars, and it was manufactured in 1965. The watch in the 25 years I have owned it has been in the shop twice, and it is never a minute or two off from my cell phone, so my 48 year piece of steam punk tech, is still working with min upkeep...

I am a tech support manager at one of the largest cell carriers in the US, and while HTC might have nice hardware, they are very shoddily made and usually about 3 months into it 40-60% of the phones crap out multiple times and we have to end up giving out Samsung as replacements. Which is why you see the HTC 1X selling new for 99 cents, because it is a horrible piece of crap.

Really, at ATT we have been bricking phones for the last three months if they are reported lost or stolen...

There has been a mod for that for months to turn off the shutter click. Google is still your friend. Also, an App Called Defender will fix your battery woes. But if you are running wifi, you are in one location? Why would you need cel radios and GPS on? To find your bathroom? My s2 went to ICS, and Jellybean, pick your products wisely.

Funny how ATT does blacklist them...

All the what were Bell South States, the geode sits in Jacksonville and most of the hardware was in Atlanta. Texas of course was originally SBC.

I work for the T and the majority of my day is handling manager escalations from irate customers, the majority being Iphone The S3 can be had for $99 dollars at Radio Shack, and Walmart had it for several weeks at at .92 cents/ Also a refurbed Iphone 5 is $149 and a refurbed S3 on our site is at $29. Huge difference. So, you can still get an S3 cheaper than an Iphone 5. And the Walmart price is $127 on the phone, and the huge lure is you can finance it and pay Walmart and Apple even more money. As for the Mobile Share plan, your math is a bit off. Four smart phones with ten gigs of data has a base cost of $240 dollars. With Tax that will run you up to $280. I personally use T-Mobile because I get free wifi calling in the US and Outside of the US and it does not use my plan minutes, unlimited data that only slows down at 10 gigs, and unlimited international text, for 95 a month, things I could not do with my own employer. That and I like to keep personal items apart from work. I use a Galaxy S2 skyrocket that has been doing all the things the iphone 5 for the last year, and has a much larger screen, and i have 80 gigs of memory in it, and the only cost I paid was 30 dollars for the sd card.

My nose has been detecting bad breath for the last 43 three years. Should I file a patent on nasal abilities?

Really? I am running Ice cream Sandwich on my Motorola Defy, and Jelly Bean on my S2 Skyrocket, both unofficial releases and it literally took me 20 minutes to install each on both.

I work for ATT and we only offer 1 sony phone at a time, especially in the last year. And they are pretty too look at, but just awful phones, that no one really buys, and when they do, they are returned rather quickly, and the ones that keep them are fraught with warranty replacements. Sony is not making any inroads in the US market.

I work all over Latin America, and it literally costs me the same to go from Bogota to Medellin in Colombia round trip that I can fly from Orlando to NYC. Though my experience is germane to Latin America, I prefer to fly in the US, and it is cheaper. International flights tend to have a little better service but third world flights are sorely lacking. The US is head and tails above.