We all know Valleywag is over the top. $1,237 for the true cost of the new 3g iPhone is incorrect. He doesn’t take into account only incremental costs as it’s not fair to assume you never had a cell phone before this and you were not paying anything before.
I will pay $179/yr in incremental costs and here is why:
• Unlimited data plan: I currently pay $20; now I will be paying $30 for a network 2x as fast. Net $120/yr.
• Text messages are not included in the new plan. Net $60/yr.
• Mobileme ($99/yr) will be a “nice to have”, but Funambol has already announced their sync app is ready to go for launch. Net $0/yr.
• My voice plan will not change. Net $0/yr.
• The cost of the 3g iPhone is $199. I have a bid on my 2g for $200. Even If I do decide on the 16gb, I shouldn’t count that because I have 8gb more of portable storage. Net -$1.
It obviously will be different for other people. If you are switching from another service provider that cost could increase by a pretty hefty amount. I also understand that FamilyTalk plans are being forced into higher rates as well. This same thing happened with the 1st generation iPhone as well…people are still amazed to find out I only pay $70/mo for service (which is $12 more than what I was paying for a SLVR) because rumors were flying around saying it would cost $120/mo just for service alone.
I’ve updated the extension to add support for Firefox 3.0 RC1. I haven’t been able to really test it like I wanted to, so please let me know if you run into any problems and I will address them.
You might have also noticed a few extra comments on posts…using the RSSMeme API I am now able to pull in Google Reader Notes on every post that has them. They will show up at the bottom of the gReader Comments inline page inside Reader. At the top you can also see the share count & how many notes are tied to that particular post (thanks again to RSSMeme).
I threw together a new iPhone web-app. This was by far the quickest & easiest one I have done yet. It’s based entirely on the CSB Sportsline data. The idea for it came from trying to get the Sportsline scores gadget from iGoogle on the iPhone, but none of the pages it produced looked good on the phone.
If you want to check it out - head on over to http://www.sixteenseven.com/scorestapp
- @brandonpope I wish twinkle would let me click on links in tweets. #
- @Networkjedi just moved from blogger to WP2.5 myself…now we just have to get you switched over to Disqus.com for comments . #
- Must be a FF3 thing…worked on IE. Is it too early to be using FF3 still? #
- Having a terrible time working with gDocs this morning: "Trying to reach google.com…" #
- Is there a twitter client for iphone that makes links clickable? #
- cushycms is perfect for clients that want control of their content: http://cushycms.com #
- @bgolub feeling the pressure of readburner? We all love competition! #
- Jumped on board the Alert Thingy train. #
- heading for mojitos…yum. #
- fring just replaced my IM on my phone and will increase twitter usage. #
- using fring…as expected no voip over edge #
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I submitted gReader Comments to Digg…if you find this extension useful please digg it below:
Just switched over the blog to word press. You probably didnt notice because I’m using pretty much the same theme. What do you think? The switch was mostly for admin functions, but if I find any cool plugins to use you might see a few new things.
Up until about a week ago I was using IntenseDebate for my blog & the gReader Comments extension. I’m not a fan of just adding work-load to my free time, so the short-term reason I switched was because I didn’t know how to stop all the Arabic comments coming through ID. My blog is no big deal, obviously, but switching services on the extension caught the attention of the CEO of IntenseDebate (they like it so much they wrote a blog post about it).
Disqus vs. Intense Debate
- Track anonymous comments: not all of my friends that comment like to have accounts
- Community pages: http://reader.disqus.com
- Dashboard simplicity - much easier to manage
- Disqus took the lead in people count & growth (see chart below). An extremely important question to ask yourself when working with startups is “will they be around next year”; based on the growth rate & low market share it will be extremely hard for IntenseDebate to come out on top.
- $500k vs. $15k - this goes with the point above about stability. Publicly, Disqus just received a round of VC money for $500,000 which can keep a startup afloat for quite a while.
- Simple integration: things just seemed to work when working with Disqus and I wasn’t having to encode URLs in funky ways to get them to pass through (with IntenseDebate I was having to change all ‘&’ signs to something like ‘??—??’ and then check for those on the other side to switch back). The Disqus default comment count script could use some work, but with the API all things are possible.
- Integration with FriendFeed - the target market for people leaving comments (that you actually want to read - digg fails) are the big name bloggers & the people they follow, opinion leaders, your friends –> right now that’s all FriendFeed consists of…and the beauty of it is that no matter how big it gets, those people are my only “friends” so that’s all I will ever see. Greater interoperability between FriendFeed & Disqus is one of the bigger goals for my project.
- Great support - Both have this, but Disqus has turnaround in about 12 hours [2] while ID had turnaround in about 24-36 (although I did have a great hour long conference call w/ ID)
