Survey Says Most iPhone Users Love AT&T

Hugh Pickens writes "In a report sure to raise eyebrows, CNN Money claims that despite a very vocal group of detractors, the vast majority of iPhone users love AT&T. A survey released this week by Yankee Group reports that 73% of iPhone owners scored their satisfaction with the carrier as an 8, 9, or 10 on a 10-point scale. The results seem surprising, given the pounding AT&T has taken in the media and on the blogosphere about its service-related issues with the iPhone and AT&T's recent iPad-related security glitch. For its part, AT&T says its network really isn't as bad as many people think. 'There's a gap between what people hear about us and what their experience is with us. We think that gap is beginning to close,' says Mark Siegel, an AT&T spokesman. 'It doesn't mean we're perfect; we still have work to do. But that's no surprise to us, because we have a great network.'" Buried in the penultimate paragraph is the somewhat alarming note that "77% of iPhone owners say they'll buy another iPhone, compared to 20% of Android customers who say they'll buy another Android phone."

Comments

Re:Ignorance

[morgan_greywolf]

There have been no known Mac OS X viruses in the wild. There have been, however, a few trojans (mostly proof-of-concept, a handful of actual "in-the-wild" ones). There's a big difference between the two.

If I were to write a Mac OS X virus and prove that it works, is there any chance you'll quit saying that? No? Didn't think so.

Re:Why is this alarming?

[insertwackynamehere]

That's not a translation. That's a stupid spin. 80% of Android customers would not buy Android again, given the oppurtunity. 77% of iPhone users would. You fail statistics but you clearly excel at sucking slashcock

Re:Ignorance

[sznupi]

Flash is more vivid and, well, funny example.

On one hand, we have "Macs don't crash" - while on the other..."Flash is the cause of most Mac crashes" (nvm that other OSes do fine when Flash goes bonkers)

Which one is it?

Re:What he said Vs. What he meant

[BasilBrush]

It's clear what he said.

Its clear that your grasp of the English language isn't as good as it could be. Whether in reality or by feigning ignorance.

Re:stockholm syndrome?

[insertwackynamehere]

I'm the troll? Slashdot is filled with some of the stupidest fucking people these days who circlejerk over things they've decided they don't like and the minute someone tries to bring any sort of logic into the discussion they are modded down. Fine, STOKHOLM SYNDROME REALITY DISTORTION FIELD LOLLOLOLOL

Go back to fucking 4chan you fucking idiots

Re:Why is this alarming?

[insertwackynamehere]

Haha this isn't offtopic. Did a fucking socially inept apple hating piece of shit find himself with some extra mod points? There are maybe 5 apple fanbois on this site. There are a million RMS cock sucking GNU/LOONIX fucksticks however

Re:Ignorance

[Anonymous Coward]

Excuse me, but I don't know how else to put this: fuck off.

I love my iPhone, despite it's faults, and I'm a pretty technical person. How technical? I have a degree in physics, have worked with open source and Linux since 1995, was a senior Linux sysadmin for 10 years, and spent a few of the years in between working as an *embedded Linux developer* for mobile projects.

Do I go around telling people that OS X is completely safe and free from viruses and other malware? No. Do I tell them that it's a platform that lets them access the power of Unix without having to fuck around at the command line? Yes.

Same with the phone. Do I say "Hey! This phone was made by Jesus himself and is completely infallible"? Or is it more likely that I say "Hey, it's got its faults - but it's still a great phone ... especially if you're not a Slashdot commenter"?

Enough with the self-righteous anti-fanboy shit. Your generalization of "Apple users" is insulting and wrong.

Nah, it's just fine. Anyone that uses Apple products is an idiot. Just because you have a degree in an unrelated field doesn't mean anything.

99% people in Iraq elections voted for Saddam

[postmortem]

And many countries in dictatorship loved their presidents-for-life.

Draw your parallels.

The iPhone 4 is that phone

[SuperKendall]

It's my opinion that the next iPhone will almost certainly do something about the antenna problems we've seen on the iPhone 4, and it's likely that Apple will take a look at all aspects of the unit's RF performance. When they do, and when they release a new model that incorporates these improvements, we'll upgrade.

Perhaps they will, and perhaps they will not...

But I live in Denver, and the iPhone 4 gets better reception as-is than my 3Gs did. I don't like cases and had no plans to get one, I've really not run into issues with this.

I skipped the 3G iPhone and my plan was to skip a generation after the 3Gs. But between the screen and the speed/memory boost, and the better reception - the iPhone 4 is I think a worthy upgrade even over the 3Gs.

One last thing to consider is that the larger memory in the iPhone 4 means you can load larger images in the browser - I'm able to get something like 2600 x 1700 images loading in now, which would just not load at all on the 3Gs.