Absolutely. When you do the math, clearly most customers were there for the free cell phone, because it sure as hell ain't the network or customer service that's worth sticking around. That deal with Apple early on may account for the trend in those numbers, overall. That and the fact their customers die of old age.

I expected them to charge me an extra fee for the data breach, and back billing to 2019 for dark web advertisements of my accounts. Thanks, AT&T

Maybe I'm just getting soft, but usually a few paragraphs of journalism reporting on the response of a major insurance company gets me very riled up.

Not this time. There may be more to this story, but it sure looks like a major insurer did the right thing for everyone involved. Kudos.

The kind with way more cash than education, apparently.

That's exactly what you buy when paying up for icloud storage...12 Gigs of "data" that can only be used to move your entire system image to yet another overpriced Apple device. But make any attempt to extract your 10 years of text messages or any other apps or files, then you need to keep buying software and storage or you lose it to their "non bug" policy you gotta pay and pay again to get your data off the walled prison garden of "paradise lost".

Tally- Ho! Its Europe so they should be talking Kilograms....duh.

Somehow, using your brain to play chess sounds less challenging than every other game. Suddenly, Pong and Donkey Kong will require a lot more brain power to win.

No matter how you slice it, its ALL IN THEIR HEAD.

An Ethiopian Prince just wrote to me about a financial opportunity..
I told him I'm Nigerian.

You've got a point. Even a poorly implemented change to member policy seems conspiratorial. We know we're being pimped, we just don't like being reminded.

It's more a "faith based" privacy system until the missus steps on a "banana peel".

Yeah, man, Google says they are just being transparent.... but I can see right through them!

The lord give'th and the lord take'th away. How do you like them Apples?..or fig leaves, inquires the sinister snake in the grass...

A fancy 3 eyed iPhone or Android gets even better results for amateurs than a full frame Nikon or Canon (for the money). The Apple/Google/Samsung "special sauce" software with 3 eye HDR multiple exposure on the fly simply does a better job than one frame exposure. Frankly, after the complex mechanics of DSLR manufacture are no longer on demand, I'm astonished at how much they continue to charge for these new mirror-less full framed point and shoot status symbols. Particularly since the just can't beat the spectacular results of high end cell phones, particularly in the hands of ordinary people. Its a camera, online backup and publish and distribution with correct metadata and perfect exposure and image stabilization in terrible uneven lighting situation. For most people, the overpriced camera habit is no longer necessary unless you just like high end toys and stuff to buy with all of that extra cash you have lying around. A $1200 iPhone ain't cheap but the camera rigs are 10x the price. Less cost than a car but more than a vacation.

".. I'll take whatever she's having..."

Estelle Reiner - When Harry Met Sally