Right now Verizon is starting to chew rapidly into iPhone marketspace with the new Droid.\u00a0 The reason is obvious to the majority of AT&T customers, AT&T has a horribly bad network.\u00a0 Coverage is sporadic at best despite AT&T’s postcard ads on TV where they claim coverage in 300,000 metropolitan areas.\u00a0 Yep, very poor coverage.<\/p>\n
The only reason AT&T has lasted this long following their Cingular aquisition was the iPhone contract they have to be the exclusive distributor for Apple.\u00a0 But Apple is coming out with a new iPhone that may not be covered under this exclusive contract.\u00a0 The iPhone 4G.<\/p>\n
Foxconn is a company that manufactures the iPhone for Apple.\u00a0 My CDW rep recently told me a story from his brother, who works for Foxconn, about another Foxconn employees mysterious suicide<\/a> after he “lost” an iPhone 4G prototype. The 25 year old “jumped” from his apartment window.<\/p>\n Apparently the same employee, Sun Danyong,\u00a0 had “misplaced” other iPhone prototypes before.\u00a0 And for some strange reason he always came back to work beaten up around the same time he found the misplaced units.<\/p>\n “Foxconn has confirmed that Sun Danyong’s family was paid roughly $44,000 and given an Apple laptop as compensation for his death.” – Laura Dune <\/em>-engadget<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Right now Verizon is starting to chew rapidly into iPhone marketspace with the new Droid.\u00a0 The reason is obvious to the majority of AT&T customers, AT&T has a horribly bad network.\u00a0 Coverage is sporadic at best despite AT&T’s postcard ads on TV where they claim coverage in 300,000 metropolitan areas.\u00a0 Yep, very poor coverage. The … Continue reading Is an iPhone, $44K and a laptop worth dying for?<\/span>