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Putting off tech purchases because of impending innovation

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shmokes:

--- Quote from: Donkbaca on April 06, 2012, 10:53:44 am ---Your situation has nothing to do with technology, it has to do with a service being offered.  Your premise: that tech changes, has nothing to do with what sort of plan the cell people offer


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Potato potato. Hmm . . . that doesn't work so well in print.  :)

At any rate, it's not altogether unrelated to technology. The shared data plans require changes to their systems. They have to update software, and potentially hardware too, on the backend to make this happen. They've been testing it internally for some time now.

I get what you're saying, and for the most part you're technically right. Service is not subject to the same rapid obsolescence that tech is. But the practical effect for me at this moment is the same. I want to buy now, but a must-have feature is just around the corner and it's tearing me apart (well, maybe not quite, but still . . .). I just wish I had some way of knowing if exactly how far away said corner was.

Samstag:
The only way to win the tech game is not to play.

I just dropped my verizon plan and put my droid on a page plus prepaid account.  I'm still on the verizon network with the same phone, but I'm paying about $80-100 per year instead of $80 per month.

Vigo:
I pay $45 a month for t-mobile shared family plan. Screw text, screw data. I don't care to be the asshat with my face buried in my phone everywhere I go.

knave:
AT&T will let you switch to a shared plan within your contract period. I've gone back and forth many times. As long as you keep the number active there is no issue. They may reset your contract time however but I've never ran into this being an issue as you are eligible for a new phone upgrade after only a year.

So...get the phones you want now and switch to family data when it's available.

hypernova:

--- Quote from: Vigo on April 06, 2012, 12:02:27 pm ---I pay $45 a month for t-mobile shared family plan. Screw text, screw data. I don't care to be the asshat with my face buried in my phone everywhere I go.

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That's right.  You can be an asshat just fine with your face not buried!

:D

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