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1 year ago

in Rogers iPhone: Get a second mortgage on Mathew's comments
Meh.
The $100 plan is pretty comparable to the average blackberry plan. It's not good, but it's not surprising. I've got a feeling that Rogers used their blackberry customer usage stats to come up with the price plans, but they forgot that most berry users expense their berries back to companies, they don't pay out of their own pocket. I've got my doubts that companies will allow employees to expense their iPhone ;-)
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mathewi I think you're right, Jules -- I think most Berry users (like me) have
corporate plans, so it's not as painful, or at least not directly.
But the iPhone is a totally different market.
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Paul Marshall The other thing to consider (and the reason why BB data usage is a meaningless comparison) is that the iPhone is specific designed to be conducive to driving far more data usage than the BB. I am a BB user (Corporately) and was considering getting an iPhone personally but will not be doing so largely because the reason I would get the iPhone is to use it to browse and stay connected in ways I won't with my Corp BB.

Rogers really missed the boat on this and I believe/hope sales of the iPhone and the recently released rate fail miserably so that they reconsider. Don't even get me started on the 3 year mandatory plan!!!!

1 year ago

in louisgray.com: Is Your Web Getting Filtered? What's Blocked or Unlocked? on louisgray.com
Hey there Louis!
Congrats on the expansion of your family!

With regards to figuring out what's blocked/not blocked... i'm getting a tingly feeling that fairly soon your experience will be mirrored by thousands of other internet folks. Within a short time, there's going to some neat web app that's going to let you see all the content that's being filtered through your ISP. Something akin to the broadband speed testers that are now prevalent.

Cheers,
jules

1 year ago

in Apple = Awesome, Rogers = FAIL on seanmcdonald.ca
Hrm. Great screenshots. And I'm still not convinced you talked with a real person. Same thing happened to me yesterday with a Vonage chat-bot.
Evil wee buggers. And I'm sure they're not going to tell you anything of value until they're ready, of course
:-)

1 year ago

in Pay for a blog feed? Not going to happen on Mathew's comments
I wonder if I'm understanding this right - paying for RSS feeds or going right to the website directly? I'm a bad blog reader I keep all the cool stuff in iGoogle - and there are about 2 dozen sites that, if I like what I see in the rss reader bit, I open the entire blog in a new tab, because I don't want to miss anything! I use my rss reader as a bookmark ;-)

I'd rather pay for blog access to someone i'm interested in, rather than just the rss feed ;-)

1 year ago

in A Windows error on a gas pump on Mathew's comments
Holy cow.
I now understand the increasing gas prices. What, with a MS platform, how could they *not* keep rising? ;-)

2 years ago

in Is Facebook overtaking MySpace? on Mathew's comments
It may be odd to admit, but Facebook is now one of the the 4 main brower tabs I open in the morning, along with my google reader, gmail, and blog portals ;-)
Eesh.
At a dinner Friday night with folks ranging in age from 20 to 65, 7 out of the 11 of us were on facebook.

2 years ago

in Hey Ma! They got TV on the Internet now! on Mathew's comments
i struggle with approved TV content on the 'net..... the last time I tried to go to NBC and catch an episode of something, the servers realized I was Canadian and shut me out.... I wonder if this new initiative will be more accessible globally, or remain US specific?

2 years ago

in Is Digg the future or just a feature? on Mathew's comments
Hey there Matt,
I struggle with Digg. I try to like, I try to appreciate it, I try to use it. I end up getting discouraged by people who have dugg something just to get the story to the top of the listing, or the repetitiveness of top stories. Perhaps I'm not consistent enough in my use, and I've given up too easy? I'm not yet convinced that a high digg number is an indication of value.

2 years ago

in Flickr slices and dices its data on Mathew's comments
Thanks for this! I had no idea Flickr had announced nifty tools, (and I play with my Flickr stuff regularly). What's even more interesting, once you dig into the camera stats, Flickr lets you browse through the most interesting photos taken with that camera. I'm looking for a Canon 30D, and am thrilled at the types of photos it takes.

-jules

2 years ago

in Back in the saddle for mesh 2007 on Mathew's comments
Wow! Thanks for this Matt! I missed Mesh '06, and have been hoping that there would be a Mesh '07. Fantastic news!!

cheers,
jules

2 years ago

in CoComment gets great upgrade on Scobleizer
yes - you've gotta try it again ;-)
Just installed, it's perfect. Angels are singing ;-) Thanks for the hint!

cheers,
jules
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