Why is it that Apple will not aloow a carrier service other that At&t?
There are US Soldiers over seas who would love to get there hands on apple products but once again no love for us. First we can get things mailed to us now you will not allow us to get you iPhone. Windows suck and we would live Apple Products. So what do we do???? There are other carriers who would get more users that AT&T, T-Moblie is worldwide. Millions of people as with AT&T?????
I think the stumbling block for Verizon was far more to do with the wish to continue V-cast, their proprietary media-sharing service from which they make a lot of money, while Apple would have wanted to continue dependence on iTunes. That, in itself, would have been an inevitably serious conflict of corporate needs.
But I suspect Verizon is smarting from the loss of customers to AT&T, not just because of the number who jumped ship in the first wave of iPhone customers, but those who will not renew their contracts later. Verizon can't fail to know that as much as the iPhone has it's problems, it IS the device the cellphone industry is going to be measured against for some time, and while many manufacturers and cell providers are going to hurry to catch up, the iPhone will continue to develop from the starting point we see now. The fact they are pushing the Chocolate as doing what the iPhone can do shows they have realized they are in some degree of trouble and need to deflect the attention somewhat.
All in all though, unlike all their Mac, iPod, iTunes/media efforts, the iPhone was never a device Apple could wholly control, since it relies entirely on a cellphone infrastructure to not only deem what it can do and can't do, but how it goes about it. The resulting product is a synergy of the good and bad points from both companies... which isn't an entirely inspiring thought!
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Is it true that Apple will not replace an LCD under warranty?
I have an iPhone 4s, that I bought around a month ago. It is under warranty. I have been having issues with the phone since the day I received it in the mail. One being that I get dial tones and/or other static-y noises at the beginning of all outgoing and incoming calls, usually for about 2-3 seconds. The phone also randomly dies, even if it has 15, 20 sometimes even 30 percent battery left. The biggest issue I've ran into is the front screen of the phone popping off. Not completely, but enough to notice. The way I can tell when it happens is because the home button will feel weird, like majorly indented and then light can be seen coming out through the side of the phone. The problem is that each time this happens the screen would get little crack-looking disturbances or just discolored all over, and then tonight it popped out AGAIN while I was talking to my mom and then screen went black and the phone just started making a weird bonging sound over and over. For lack of a better term, I'm ******.
The phone itself is perfect. No scratches, no dents, nothing. It's always been in a case.
My husband is adamant that I'm wasting my time because Apple will not replace an LCD screen, but obviously the phone has had issues since I received it and it's not anything that I did! I spoke to a very nice representative who made an appointment at the Apple Store to have it checked out. Has anyone had any luck with getting something like this taken care of under warranty? Thanks!The AppleTV update was not mandatory. It is not applied automatically, and will continue to function without an update. Others have reported successfully exchanging updated AppleTVs for models with earlier versions of the OS when there was a problem with the update.
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I am told that an Apple ID can never be destroyed and replaced. Who dreamed that one up? I am told I cannot use a password that has been used in the past year. Why? By whose authority? I am not a walking encyclopedia that remembers every telephone number he ever dialed. Thankfully my cheap LG clamshell telephone keeps numbers and talks to Ford Sync successfully.
Bottom line is that the IPAD has become almost totally useless since I cannot change the several necessary passwords to anything I can remember because they are not novel enough. I also never seem to be able to keep the Apple IDs straight as they are too numerous to remember and I don't want to remember them anyway. Why? Even if you enventually get the ID right you have the wrong password and have to go through a merry-go-round of emails to change the password to something you have already used in the past year which is not permitted.
Has anyone out there used a competitive device with less cumberson overhead? Surely this is not the best American technology can produce.
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Ray ZacharyThanks to all who responded. You are all absolutely correct. However, this Ipad was a gift to my wife who was dying of cancer in the hospital and wanted some entertainment. So I started it out with her Apple ID. After she passed away I moved from Sacramento to Austin and eventually proceeded to get the Apple ID changed from my wife's to mine. Meanwhile when she was in the hospital I opened an Itunes account in my name to buy movies for her. That was the first mistake.
Then during the move to Austin I lost track of the IPAD and later found it and tried to use support but could not remember the proper ID. Later the folks at the Apple store helped me create a new and novel Apple ID that was unfortunately unlike any other.
The botom line is that I am stuck with three Apple IDs and three passwords. I am told by Apple there is nothing they can do about this as IDs cannot be changed or destroyed. I can quit using them or start a new account but when I try to do that the system keeps remembering too many things from the past and resists.
Even if I sold this Ipad and bought a new one, the system memory is still there.
I think the real problem is that destop and laptop computers are totally owned by an individual and that individual can control logins and passwords to his liking. IPADs and similar Apple products are different in that the corporation has built in their own intrusion detection schemes because of the relation to Itunes.
One thing I thought about is to open a new Itunes account pretendding to be a new customer with my regular Apple ID. Perhaps I could do the same with Apple Support.
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