Here is my current opinion and a potential topic for next week's show. Today AT&T announced Adjusted Mobile Data plans.
http://www.droid-life.com/2013/12/05/att-adjusts-mobile-share-data-plans-makes-cheaper-adds-no-contract-option-at-15-discount/
Here was my comment on my Facebook page that I shared from the Droid Life link.
This is only my opinion, but given that I am a Verizon Moto Droid hacker, rooter and hardware repair guy exclusevely for MotoDroids, I have had every incarnation of the Droid from the OG Droid to my current Red Droid Ultra, I am more than qualified to raise these questions a offer my opinion on the subject. Hope you can use it on next week's show.
Oh how 5 years can change everything. In 2008 AT&T was the most evil cell phone provider in the USA. Then for the next 2 years they made an exclusive contract with Satan himself Steve Jobs and Apple for exclusive sales and distribution of the iPhone. I hated AT&T and Despised Apple more because between the two of the companies one had no choice but to use apps approved and manipulated by both companies.
I was a Pure Verizon Motorola Droid fanboy. Google was god and the Android operating system was going to take over the world. I was correct about one thing. The Android OS now has 85% market share worldwide in smartphones and are now outselling the iPad 3 to 1. I told you so.
I also predicted that as the number one technology company Apple had nowhere to go but down. And down they went. Their fearless creator and leader Steve Jobs died before his time. Tim Cook has realized partially that the ability to interact outside of the Apple ecosystem was necessary. At the same time, ATT realized that they were as bad of a company ass I said and in the past year have improved their LTE coverage and are opening up to the new way of doing business - open unlocked no contract devices. I was in an AT&T store last month and for the first time ever the guy who helped me knew MORE about Motorola Android devices than I did. I tried to impress him with my Red Moto Droid Ultra. And he pulls out his AT&T customized Moto X which has the same motherboard as my Droid. They have gone from being evil to being number one in customer service in the industry.
I have been with Verizon Wireless for 18 years, even before they were Verizon they were called in Los Angeles AirTouch. Verizon now is the evil known as Big Red. They have expensive and small shared data plans, long manipulative contracts and now their LTE system is overloaded. I am grandfathered in to an old UNLIMITED Data Plan and I use, and I am not joking here, 700 Gigabytes of data per month. I download torrents from my Droid which is rooted and the database is hacked so it tells the red mothership that I have permission to wireless tether to my computer. My other 4 phones SHARE a total of 8 Gigabytes of data.
Google purchased Motorola Mobility in 2012. Google products are no longer the default apps on the Android AOSP. Google has abandoned its "do no evil" policy and shares your data, searches and email with all google services in the name of a unified search experience.
I have more predictions now as we end the year 2013. Verizon is now at the top and they have no where to go but down and to become humbled by the competition especially by Sprint who will be broadcasting LTE on an uncluttered WiMax frequency that they now have access to when they purchased Clear a few months back.
The exclusive Motorola Droid line will die a silent and painless death as Google puts fulfills their contract between Verizon and Motorola and every Droid from now to the end will be a re-badged version of a Moto X or G in a Verizon color.
And my final prediction I have been saying for the past decade. Google will become Skynet. It already has satellites in space, a sophisticated algorithm that understands, and comprehends human in every language and Google just announced that they are going to build robots. And one last thing. Arnold Schwarzenegger was the Governor of Google's base of operations.
The only question to which I have no answer is when The Terminator will come back in time to a pre-googleverse to save the future.
Maybe if the Terminator android come and kills Arnold before he becomes the goernator, an android will prevent Android from taking over the world?
Oh wait, never mind. If Android was never to be invented then the world would be controlled by Apple's IOS software. And the imminent devastation off the world would be better choice than Apple giving us no choices.
