Rogers Gives iPhone Coveters a break

Better line-up now; rumor is there will only be 10-30 handsets for sale at each Rogers location. whon whon!

And by fencesitters, I probably mean me, and their nefarious plan to drain my bank account will probably be successful.

and the thing is AT&T's plan in the states that is called "unlimited" is actually a "soft cap" at 5GB, which, to my understanding, means if you repeatedly go over 5GB per month you get some sort of slap on the wrist or something. the exact consequences i'm not positive about, my point merely being that "unlimited" doesn't necessarily mean unlimited, as you guys have outlined quite clearly in the past. but please correct me on this point if you know better.
plus in reading through the comments on the gizmodo post about this, most people seem to be saying that 6GB is actually quite a bit for regular surfing. and especially considering that more and more sites are coming out with skimped-down content-only smartphone-specialized versions, it should be all right. plus factor in that a lot of the time there'll be some unsuspecting person's wi-fi to leech off of, and all of a sudden it doesn't seem so bad.
and rogers knows what apple fanboyism is all about, so one way or another, people are going to just shovel over their money month after month regardless. they just did this to appease, as marc said, a lot of fence sitters, and to sway former iphone devotees who decided not to get one for spite.

Ooh. That could get me off the fence too. I have this crazy business plan that starts at $25 and doesn't really exist, but they had to give it to me due to some problems with the factuality of their advertising and my yelling at them for an hour-- so I can NEVER give that up. But adding $30 for data is totally doable. I will shake hands with that Man.

It's a trap.

It doesn't change the fact that you're still paying about a thousand bucks a year for the plan—minimum. It's the cost, and it's always been about the cost. So they bumped up the data rate to a totally reasonable 6 GB for "early adopters" of their exorbitant plans…it's basically the equivalent of just adding a bit more lube so you think it hurts less, but it doesn't change what they're doing to you in the first place.

I was enamored with the iphone when it was first released. I had a plan for a friend to get me one in vegas that i could just sim unlock and jailbreak once I got my hands on it. Well instead of waiting I ended up buying an ipod touch. Using the internet on it, while infinently better than on any other phone, mostly due to the GUI, is still pretty slow and that is using my crisp wifi at home. Out in the wild trying to snag some chump's wifi is a useless endeavor. I can't imagine the agony of surfing on 3G let alone on egde the odd time I'm out of 3G coverage. I'll pass. Rogers already gets enough of my money.

Sidebar- I wonder is Rogers will try to cripple the native firmware of the iphone like they do with all their other phones. Example; I have an LG Shine which has a fine imbedded music player but for some reason Roger decided to rob me of my 2 softkeys my permanently by making them goto the shit Rogers music player and Vision menu respectively.