In the last two weeks my parents have managed to out-tech me. Keep in mind I am not on the cutting edge of technology, so out-teching me requires no great effort of any sort. But one day I'm talking to my mom, and I discover that both she and my father have acquired iPad 2s for themselves. Wha-what? Hey that's cool.
Then last night I'm talking to my father, and the conversation goes something like this:
Rick: "I finally got myself a gift for christmas and my birthday."
Andy: "Seems a little late for those. What did you get?"
Rick: "A battery for my truck."
Andy: (underwhelmed, hesitates) "Hey, that's great!"
Rick: "The old one has been in there since 2003, so I figure I got my money's worth."
Andy: (choke) "For as often as it sits around unused, I'd say yes, you got a great value."
Rick: "Then I went to the to the AT&T store. Do you know what they sell there?"
Andy: (feeling like a sneak attack just occurred, hesitates again) "You got an iPhone?"
Rick: "No it's a 4G."
Andy: "Huh? Yeah, of course, an iPhone?"
Rick: "What? Oh, yeah. I'm all set up for email and using it for work."
Andy: "Wow, that's cool. How do you like it?"
Rick: "It took these guys 10 emails going back and forth yesterday just to decice whether they wanted to fly to Larime or Denver. 10 emails. Seems like kind of a waste to me."
Andy: "Maybe your limited computer use over the last ... oh ... 15 years or so has insulated you from the way people communicate these days. Why bother talking to anyone when you can text or email them and never face them?"
Rick: "Yeah but 10 emails?"
Anyway, you get the point, and now my father has a iPhone before I do. Here I've been waiting patiently for Verizon to get the thing, and once they did I waited paitently again to convince myself that I really want to spend a couple hundred dollars to buy into this life changing technology that will fix everything for me. And literally as I am on the verge of pulling the trigger and going with a Verizon iPhone, Laura says "Oh, hey, I can get a discount though work with AT&T.", so I hesitated.
Ok, this blog is falling apart quickly. Anyway, my parents are savvier than me.
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So did he get an iPhone 4 or a 4G? AT&T sells a few different devices called " 4G", none of which are actually an iPhone.
ReplyDeleteThose AT&T discounts are handy, but check the fine print. It's almost certainly not valid on the data portion of your plan, so you typically just save about $3 or $4/month (cancels out the taxes/fees). Nice to have, but balance that out with how good/bad the AT&T network is where you live…