But it's another platform which is a young startup. what's to say somebody doesn't buy them in another year and do the same thing? I'm honestly at the point where I'm using 3 or 4 different services for different things and will remain doing so.
- Bill Kinney
I think choosing another hilltop to hide at is not a good strategy. Going to do a lengthy post on this, hopefully this week.
- Michael Bravo
Why the sudden interest in Posterous? Its been around for at least a year already and as far as I remember doesn't have any of the community search and streaming conversation features that make friendfeed interesting.
- Rafael Robayna
I've used Posterous since the first day and I got to say that the developers are really great, so I think that Posterous will be something to watch out for.
- Svartling
Oh, and thanks for posting my post here Kol Tregaskes :)
- Svartling
I like Posterous. I'm not sure if it's going to be a Friendfeed one day. Probably not. In general one can say services not hosted by one of the major players around will disappear or be purchased within some years.
- Rutger Blom
from iPhone
Yes, that's why I have my hopes in the end for Google Wave. It will probably not disapear if it's a success.
- Svartling
from email
In that way the acquisition of FF by FB is a good thing. You end up on a major platform which is likely to stick around more than a couple of years.
- Rutger Blom
Yeah, exactly. Looking forward to it. A stable, central place to be.
- Svartling
from email
is posterous kind of the opposite, a broadcaster as opposed to an aggregator?
- Brian Appleby
Brian - I was wondering the same thing. Posterous seems to be a good way to post *out* to other services, rather than have those other services feed *in* (or have I missed the point?)..
- Andrew Terry
Yes it is! But you can have your feeds automatically to it but it's a bit tricky. First you need to have your feeds post to your gmail or ping.fm
- Svartling
from iPhone
Hiya, is there a way anyone knows of to set posterous to automatically import my new friendfeed items as they turn up? (don't really want to give them my password to see if pretending it's a blog works - pls tell me if that's the only way, though ;-) thanks
- immaterial
Should be possible via RSS. Don't know how to set it up though.
- Rutger Blom
from email
Make friendfeed send the items to your gmail and make a auto filter there that send it forward to your Posterous.
- Svartling
from email
@svartling thanks, forwarding filter is a good idea - giving that a try :-) also trying via feedmyinbox to see if it's fast enough for more control over items
- immaterial
"You don't go into back-burner projects and make changes deep in the information plumbing. Especially not changes that break things and take hours to fix. I see this breakage as evidence that FriendFeed is not on the back burner."
- Bruce Lewis
This is a bit of a leap in logic. What was the problem? Were they testing new functionality, migrating some function over onto Facebook's infrastructure? Shutting down what they thought were unused systems?
- Ken Sheppardson
If only we could jump to the same conclusion every time Twitter were down...
- Ken Sheppardson
They wouldn't turn something off that takes 3 hrs to turn back on unless they were really sure it was unused. I don't see them migrating to FB infrastructure unless they're keeping ff running long term. You don't spend 50MM acquring a team and then assign them to save a few bucks in server fees. I think it was an attempted enhancement.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
I think this is the good choice for FB-FF team. (If enough man-power is given,) They can manage brands of both Facebook and FriendFeed(OpenFF?) for mass-market and (opensourced) laboratory. Like Redhat does; RHEL and Fedora (or Rawhide). In that way, I'm expecting them to open-souce some part of Friendfeed.
- Kazutaka Ogaki
from f2p
I hope you're right. I wish the FriendFeed team could/would give more specifics.
- Bruce Lewis
I was wondering Last night if FF was on Auto pilot now and getting just the very basic of looking after. I hope Not.
- Brent - Loving Life
I've yet to find an iPhone FF app that I really like, that blows away the native iPhone web interface. Do you have one that you just love? What about FreshFeed? I've tried BuddyFeed, and it just doesn't do it for me. Still waiting for the FF equivalent of Tweetie.
- Josh Bancroft
from iPhone
@Josh my Friendfeed usage has slowed dramatically since they were bought out. I am investing more in Posterous these days.
- Steve Rubel
from email
Understandable. I'm dabbling with Posterous, and will likely use it more, but it seems better for centralized posting. I find FF invaluable for centralized reading, seeing who comments on my stuff, and it's the best real-time search I've ever used. At Gnomedex, I was glued to it for backchannel, while people searching just Twitter got innundated with trend spam.
- Josh Bancroft
from FreshFeed
I'm writing this in FreshFeed, and it's very, very nice. Has features the mobile web page doesn't. Well designed. Fast. It's a winner so far.
- Josh Bancroft
from FreshFeed
Josh I totally concur re the conversation, but I feel like FF is dying - slowly.
- Steve Rubel
from email
Frankly this just seems like more complication, more stuff to keep track of and more reason to feel like Google is becoming big brother (not Microsoft after all) and that you have to give all your information to big brother Google. Maybe it is just my mood today...
- Karma Martell
Karma: yes, I feel that too. Just wanted to note that you don't need a vanity URL or a Google Profile to start sharing with Google Reader.
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
Thanks Mahendra. I will see how I do with it. :-)
- Karma Martell
You're most welcome! It's almost a parallel community in there now. :)
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
I love that Bret, Paul, and Kevin checked in. They probably are looking at their screens and asking "what do we do now?" how about ship some new features before Facebook overlords take you off to do bigger things?
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
I feel sorry for all you addicts. My use of it is purely social.
- Bruce Lewis
I do like FF and use it almost every day. Wouldn't it be great if FB either left it alone so we can continue to use it as "professionals," or somehow incorporate it into a more "mature" version of FB that didn't have all the annoying, time-wasting apps, games, etc. I'd much prefer a totally customizable FF "wall."
- Cathryn Hrudicka
I think FFundercats HO!!!!! would have worked but I'm here anyways.
- Jimminy Fuller
Actively fighting addiction to anything on a daily basis, but I'm still a FriendFeed fan! (I'd have been here sooner but I've been staring at Phoebe Cates pics for longer than I realized.)
- Mark "DerBingle" J
Thank you Robert Scoble to be here. :) BTW is this looks interesting for FF replacement? : http://streamy.com/ ? May be... I'll try it to see. :)
- Claude LaFrenière
Why should I? Whats in it for me? You doing some sort of survey of people to send out the police to do a "Safety Check" on when the site is shutdown?
- Uncle CW™
here. anecdote: a friend of mine just signed up for FF this evening. apparently the FriendFeed hype of the last 24 hours pushed him over the top. leaves me wondering whether FF has actually gained users today?it would be a crafty way of marketing the service. I'll wake up tomorrow to discover that there was a problem with the paperwork and the FriendFeed team have had a change of heart.
- JSLeFanu
from BuddyFeed
Count me in even though I was just starting to get hooked. I guess it's time to find a rehab and get all sobered up until the next relapse with some other new addiction. Isn't life grand?
- Usman Bashir
oh hey, look, the added an "add comment" link to the end of the comment list. Huzzah!
- Brett Kelly
from iPhone
++Jay. I was going to do the same thing yesterday but I didn't want to pay the money.
- David Cook
David -- this was a $9.95 session but you can get them for $7.95 and there are also 25% off coupons if you do online check-in prior to your Delta flight. That's an incentive for folks to use that service and offload kiosk use at the terminals. Very savvy marketing by the folks at GoGo and Delta combined.
- Jay Cuthrell
well, it's 12:12 a.m. and I'm perusing FF from my iPhone via BuddyFeed before turning in. so yeah, I guess I count. "Here!" (raises hand)
- Don Faulkner
from BuddyFeed
I recommend FF to some of my clients, and there are some companies and nonprofits with presences here—not like Twitter, but I'll be curious how that will be affected when FB takes over more. Most have FB fan pages, groups and/or causes, too.
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Yeah, me too. I just saw the request to have a comment link at the bottom of the comments from one of your friends just yesterday and here it is. I'd say they are listening. Thanks FF.
- Keith Rowland
И так чятег, пока Скобл не поговорит с нами представителями СовиетФрендфидика, все мои записи теперь можно читать в этом тредике. Пользуясь случае передаю Парню Бухайту и его команде большой привет, в связи с тем что [He can has sleep naw].
- ideali
превед кетаец! давай сегодня сделаем тебя счастливым!
- Махатма Бугоганди
точно! поэт, пародист, переводчик. известный блоггер.
- Махатма Бугоганди
я вчера был в издательстве, с меня сведения об авторе просят. давайте, говорят, напишем, где учился, что генеральный директор. и что известный блоггер.
- Махатма Бугоганди
а можно получить профессию известного блоггера? какие экзамены сдавать надо? какую специализацию лучше выбрать - микроблоггинг или аудиоподкастинг?
- Махатма Бугоганди
Один чувак пришол в чятег и говорит я известный блоггер кто тут тру на первый второй рассчитайсь. А ему говорят чувак у тебя сертификат есть что ты известный блоггер? Вот иди Зайке экзамен сдай потом приходи. А Зайка стоит такой с топором и улыбается. Щас думает счастливым его сделаю.
- Махатма Бугоганди
Я потерял интерес в данный момент. Я буду скрывать, как и любой другой. Это хромой, что вы захватили этот. Пивные правила. Спокойной ночи. :-)
- Matthew Horton
More than a friend of FriendFeed, was starting to use it as a full lifestreaming platform and loved it. It's made a whole lot of other sites make sense.
- achean
Hi, I'm Bette... I don't know if I'm an addict, but I can't stay away... I keep checking, just to see if something's new... and I cry if I get no responses to a post. Is that addictive behavior? :D
- Bette Cooper
Yup, I have blocked all the impersonators now. You will still see them, but I don't see them and they no longer can comment on any of my items.
- Robert Scoble
@scobleizer As far as I can see you have blocked not only the impersonators (who renamed themselves back the moment they found out you have a problem with this) but most of the folks who chatted there.
- Махатма Бугоганди
@meatreach yes, see next thread. Scobble becomes anti-Russian.
- Never Impersonate You
Maxatma: well, that's just too bad. I speak English. Sorry. People who don't speak English really don't have any business commenting on one of my items, except in rare cases.
- Robert Scoble
Why you, Robert Scoble, don't block users from Spain or Italy? China or arabic countries? Those users that comments on non-English languages?
- Never Impersonate You
@Robert, in fact they do speak English. But they also do make fun of Friendfeed and everything that's going on there. You can block them or take part in this fun. ;)
- Махатма Бугоганди
I prefer FF over twitter and facebook, but all my friends are on twitter and/or facebook. Maybe facebook will get it right this time now that it has acquired FF. If they simplify it a bit more without removing functionality. Then I would spend a bit more time on FB. Lets hope all goes well with the merger. If not I'm jumping ship and going over to Google Wave. oh wait, I'm going to go with Google Wave regardless! ;-)
- Captain Jack
Bu arada Russian friends Turkiye'ye selamlar gonderiyor.
- ideali
@scobleizer i can speak english and i beg you to remove bann from all russian friendfeeders, because we are all from it-community, working in internet companies and we came with peace, you asked for feedback from friendfeed addicts — we show you how really it is being frf addicts, we change names, we chat, we making things that are not serious. Why so serious? Unlock people, they are not bots, they just playing the game of real addicts and have fun. Common.
- ideali
shaun: I started this post to demonstrate that a lot of us are still here and aren't likely to leave. At least not quickly. So, life goes on after FriendFeed gets acquired by Facebook. Point proved.
- Robert Scoble
Robert He says ; Our Russian friends say to hello to Turkey
- Osman Üngür
ideali: have them send email to scobleizer@gmail.com and I'll unblock anyone who says they weren't impersonating me.
- Robert Scoble
Hector: good morning! I need coffee.
- Robert Scoble
@robert yes they (we will) stay here, I think tat the migration process will take time and after reading @Paul Bucheit, I think that what we all are trying to get even if we don't say it explicitly is to preserve a kind of intimacy (beeing a part of the Huge faceBook community) don't mean that FF community will preserve their intimacy, why should a community be a plan one, (let imagine a community as a set of sub-community) that all.
- abdellah
Wow!! So many likes and comments; is it a record Rob?
- میر «عرفان» موسوی
@scobleizer thank you, for understanding. be cool, guys we just want have fun here a little. Take care.
- ideali
@Robert RE "I have enough noise in my life. I don't need to have more" - isn't it a lot of noise having 26K subscriptions and 46K subscribers on your frf account? I'm kind of surprised - you create a community that large around yourself, yet when you see a new and unusual activity you just block it right away.
- Махатма Бугоганди
@Robert, patience? Who's talking about patience? It's about curiosity, not patience. When something strange and unusual happens around you, you can either try to stop it or try to see what it can develop into. You choose to stop - and it stopped. Well, not stopped - just moved to some other place. And do you really know what it was and what it was about to bring you?
- Махатма Бугоганди
I'm here all the way from South Africa! I dig this service and I'm not quite ready to give it up. Regardless of the news about the acquisition, this remains an awesome service.
- Paul Jacobson
I'm new to ff but find more valuable information here than anywhere else!
- Janet Crance
I don't know how I rate my addiction relative to others, but I shared Hitler's reaction upon hearing the acquisition news (despite happiness for Paul and Bret)
- Chris Duffy
I'm sure this is part of Scoble's plot to poll all the people who really read his posts, and unfollow the rest. So I raise my hand.
- Shivanand Velmurugan
Just a wannabe. Not an addict (yet).
- Carole Hicks
It might also be a way for me to filter down my "following" count (diff (my followers, scoble)) are the only people I really need to follow. Those that scoble follows, I can safely unfollow and use Scoble as my social media filter :)
- Shivanand Velmurugan
pardon the arrogance but it really sucks this great forum of sharing will turn into a myspace humdrum. Now I have to find another SM where first adopters and well informed techies won't haft to compete with general "noise"
- earl wallace
Well, here's a comment I can later delete and rob the owner of 1500!
- Matthew DeVries
I just mention the 1500 mark since it was such an iconic query to see... that and the 500 Likes club of FF posts. It's pretty exclusive stuff... but it's also sobering to note that the subject matter required to get to these levels isn't always a uniform mix of cares/concerns.
- Jay Cuthrell
When I heard the FaceBook news, I tried to quit FriendFeed and I couldn't... I'M HOOKED
- The Web's Wendell Wittler
i clicked the "1488 more comments" and my computer nearly exploded. and yes, i am using an amiga 500.
- jack
Now that I have instructions (thanks LouisGray) and figured out my Bookmarklet! I am LOVING the ease of use! addict - not quite...
- Robyn Hawk
Actually, I lied. I am not a die-hard friendfeed fan. I desperately want to be but have just not been able to get into a good "feeding" rhythm. Maybe I need to add some more friends
- Anant Gairola
I don't need to be addict. I'm just here, everyday, absorbing so many geeky info :D There's no place like FF
- Lysender
I'm still with ya, Robert. Whatever FB paid for FF, it wasn't enough!
- Donald C. Lindsay
New here, but learning. Tips for best use?
- Barbara Langham
@bdlangam From my perspective the #1 tip in this category is: Explore and define "best use" for yourself. Despite potential "finishing" impression of some productive consolidations in this collective-collaborative cognition space, the emergent #cognosphere is still WAY too nascent to assert anything other than initial impressions. March to the beat of your own drum; build your own...
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- michael silverton
yeah sorry, late. was at Shambhala Music Festival, I know tardy, sorry...
- sofarsoShawn
I'm getting hooked, still figuring it all out
- Michele McGraw
I think I do. Not enough contacts to make a impression.
- Michael Schlag
lol - ffcheck is good for that, will need a fbcheck now ;)
- mike "glemak" dunn
Automated tools don't help for comments: I posted something about the 5 stages of grief, got a few likes and comments, someone else posts it 5 minutes later, gets 30 likes and a dozen comments. C'est la Friend-vie.
- Mark Trapp
Learning lots today with Twitter down...kind of nice. The video was silent???
- stockmanmarc
I was testing the new youtube autosyndication of actions. SO, I fav'd this on Youtube, it travelled through the tubes to Reader shared items, then got updated over here instantly. :) How do you guys like the future?
- Jenna Bilotta
I guess its near real-time. close enough. I tried posting xml feeds to FF from individual labels in Google Reader, and they didn't update FF anywhere close to the speed of my regular GR Sharing feed.
- Dusty Edenfield
Is this the one announced on Live Stream Conference about the PubHubSubBub thing?
- Du Senyao Peter
@Dusty real-time updates for shared tags aren't hooked up yet, but they will be soon.
- Mihai Parparita
@Dusty real-time updates for shared tags are now live, see Brett's comment on http://ff.im/6e9hK for more details.
- Mihai Parparita
The Adobe Updater tells me it wants to update Acrobat every couple of days, but never manages it. Sounds like my uncle George that will come by to fix the back light.
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
And it keeps wanting to install Yahoo toolbar. What possible useful connection could there be between these two products?
- Joel Webber
yeah, not as bad as google update, but still nasty
- David
It's a terrible piece of software. Also essential: there's a really bad Flash exploit they just patched two days ago.
- Nelson Minar
Agreed its on the same level as Clippy
- Jim Goldstein
i dont understand why people dont love diggbar
- Ahmet Soyata
seems very short sighted of digg to have gotten so greedy.
- Caleb Elston
Caleb: They only have so much funding and they keep taking people (Google) down the alter and get jilted which means they will either die (running out of cash mainly) or they'll grow up get a revenue model and become self-sufficient - which is what they're doing now ;)
- Nicholas James
Nicholas: Yeah, you are right, the business realities are forcing their hand a bit, but it is rarely a good idea to piss off your users.
- Caleb Elston
great piece. I left a comment - curious how you handle redundant contact info. replace mobile numbers with google voice numbers? add the number in a new field? (which one?) create a separate contact? iPhone really needs to fix the contacts and allow users to customize fields...
- Blackeyed P
I just add them as additional phone numbers to existing contacts (which then get sync'd to my Gmail contacts). While I use GV numbers to call people, my wife also routinely asks me for phone numbers and I'm sure she'd rather have the "real" number
- Brett Kelly
from IM
As Holden said above, I also use a phone that (though is not cool to many) is not dictated by the Overlords of the OS on which apps are allowed.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
It's the internet equivalent of going to Hooters. You go there all innocently looking for a new domain name and before you know it Danica Patrick rips open her jumpsuit and starts smacking you around with her breasts.
- Chip Ramsey
I refuse to buy anything from GoDaddy for these very reasons.
- The Other Drummer
It was a very good day when I moved all my domains off of godaddy. I put them on DreamHost for $10 a year with private hosting. No extra fees, no problems.
- Josh Wilkins
Official support for tethering is still one feature conspicuous by its absence from the Palm Pre’s abilities, and the last we heard Palm were cautioning tweakers not to unofficially enable it lest Sprint get upset. If, though, the promise of sharing all that EVDO Rev.A goodness is just too good to miss, and you fancy some MiFi-style WiFi hotspot action, then homebrew app My Tether is the answer. Video demo after the cut My Tether turns the Pre into either a wired USB or wireless Bluetooth modem, or a WiFi hotspot. It can be set to use WEP encryption over WiFi, together with disabling the Pre’s sleep mode so as to avoid shutting off the data connection (as well as turning off the display to save battery). You’ll need to root your Pre in order to install My Tether, however, which requires a little more effort than loading a standard “official” title. Happily there’s a useful tutorial here which explains just how to do that. Remember, if Sprint spot you using your Pre as a tethered modem...
- Bwana ☠
Why doesn't Apple prohibit all browsers on the Mac except Safari - It would be in line with their iPhone strategy of not allowing applications which "Duplicate" Apple's functionality.
Not exactly. Personally, i disagree with Apple's stance but they also need to maintain a level of security for such a mobile device. Most likely, the phone/voice features need to be locked down because of the carrier. They don't want you to be able to circumvent them. Other things like contacts, calendars, maps, ... simplify the interface if there is a consistent set of applications. A...
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Yes but I disagree with your ease of use/consistency argument. The reality is that it is only going to be geeks and technical people using Google Voice - at least right now. It's clearly not in the customers interest to prohibit an application that is demanded and saves the customer money. The only reason they are blocking it is because they are trying to salvage the old business model...
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- Mike Bracco
Companies that follow that whole lets prohibit the user from doing this with the device usually end up in a losing battle. I would think that the google voice app is more of a competitor against AT&T, which this week has made a name for itself with it's spurious blocking of websites (4chan). Verizon did the same thing with people who were using skype on their windows mobile phone. By...
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- mindless_cubicle_drone
I agree with you, that Posterous will become a major player, but right now I don't like how a lot of people use it. For a lot of people Posterous seems to be just a plain hub for all their multimedia activities (picture/audio/video sharing) but nothing else. There should be more behind it (IMHO). I like your approach to Posterous, this is the way it should be.
- Georg Mahr
The only feature Posterous really needs to become "the next big platform" is a Backtype-like integration of external comments, esp. from Friendfeed and Twitter.
- Rubin Sfadj
I have to sign up for this. I think i could use it well.
- Amani
I started on Saturday and I really love the feel of it. I think it'll become popular.
- Gus
I'm rooting for posterous because they validate what I think is a big space between media sharing and blogging, a space I'm working to be in too.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
I love posterous' simplicity. So easy to use, comfortable but still need some fixations.
- Alif Rachmawadi
Thanks for posting Steve, and I agree with one of the comments that Posterous should add some sort of social commenting.
- Wayne Sutton
I'm right there with you, Steve. It is refreshing to focus on content. Sure, I miss my Wordpress blog at times, but as a designer, I know that beautiful things come from exercising creativity within parameters: twitter capped us at 140 char, and posterous gives us all the same gallery space to make our own, without all the anxiety for the extraneous (putting a widget for here, writing a...
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- Vincent Gallegos
Absolutely yes, Posterous is the best and the most effective and yes, it's already the biggest platform and what will be the first choice of any user. and you will see
- FFTornado
I should get over there and see what all the buzz is about. Is it like Tumbler??
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
Yes, but in other ways better. In some ways worse.
- Steve Rubel
from email
Theming is coming. I am in the beta but haven't applied a theme yet.
- Steve Rubel
from email
geez, i hope so, as I grabbed rex.posterus.com before you started hyping it. Of course, when I get around to doing anything with it, you'll be on to the next shiny next big platform
- Rex Hammock
What are the differences between posterous and tumblr ?
- archi_bald
Awesome service. And you can even post on the go via email!
- Amir
I honestly believe Posterous CAN be at least ONE of the next big platforms. We (us, are they still saying techies?) love to talk the talk about web 2.0 and worlds of Google's Wave, but if anybody benefits from Google, it'll be bloggers who post directly from Gmail to Posterous. We often boast these days that "content is key" is passe, and new language is needed. But the bare bones of it...
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- professor daddyo
nah. Posterous is great and fun, and I´m a fan. But when it comes down to it its all about the quality of your content, not about how fast you can get your content out to various micro-services or if you can post from your Iphone. I think (or hope) we will see a reaction where bloggers go back old school and actually think through what they write, that would be a welcome change... well, good old quality vs quantity I guess.
- Peter Efland
That's just it. Technology moves forward, and if the old school way was flawless, mico-blogs would have been stillborn. The opposite has happened, babies everywhere, and Posterous might be Bam Bam.
- professor daddyo
I like Posterous a lot, but I'm not sure it brings enough to the table to get me off of Tumblr.
- Brett Kelly
I signed up some time ago then I've not been using it. I love tumblr and I see duplicated features. Anyway people using a social network drives its success, not features!
- Federico Bolsoman
posterous rocks and i like it...i use it to blog through my blackberry when i'm mobile.
- Jim Gray
I created one a few days ago and I can't stop posting to it! It's so easy!
- Jennifer Stocks
It's taken me a while to get round to using Posterous after setting up an account ages ago. We have started using it at work to log docs and messages in a big cross team project. It really comes into it's own as a collaboration tool. I have since started using my own one and it's pretty addictive! http://yellowbag.posterous.com/
- Jonathan Tanner
Is AT&T in denial? No, I think that they think we just can’t handle the truth. And I think that truth is that they can’t handle the iPhone, anymore.
- MG Siegler
from Bookmarklet
AT&T is terrible. I'm waiting for Verizon.
- Trent Hamm
AT&T definitely can't handle the iPhone. They are dropping the ball all over the place. FAIL for AT&T. I hope Apple moves the iPhone to another provider asap.
- Oracio
I just do not understand the at&t thinking
- Aaron Thorn
Isn't this easy to proof? If Google Voice is still available on outside USA app stores then it was AT&T.. if not then... Or was the app only available in USA anyway?
- jkkmobile