Prepare for a righteous rant.
I’m not sure who came up with the idea that I need to jump through 32 flaming hoops to access the purportedly “free” wireless at Starbucks locations provided by AT&T to iPhone users.
It’s a lot more accurate to say that the access is “without charge” rather than “free” because it takes me approximately 2 minutes to get to the front of the line at the Starbucks location closest to my work. It takes approximately 3 minutes to actually get my “free” wifi code from AT&T. Time is money. As I get older I really understand that more and more.
Net effect: no iPhone usage – or at best, I use the over-the-air Internet if I want to kill some waiting-in-line time.
Attention AT&T: Your “free” wifi offer stinks and so does your cellular network. I can only hope that rumors of Verizon getting its own iPhone are true.
What’s really depressing is that everyone expects a new iPhone model this summer and if I get it (my original iPhone 1.0 from June 2007 is coming off contract) then I have to sign up for another 2 years on AT&T. Guess how much I’m looking forward to that.