Why is this news story so awesome?

Endless · Joined: 31 Jan 2007

Newsflash! If your mobile cell-phone service is marketed to the lowest common denominator of american culture, you will go bankrupt when nobody pays their bills.

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jun2007/tc20070605_529608.htm?campaign_id=rss_daily

I could not help but laugh.
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haircute · Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 6:45 am

Haha! SOMEBODY should have taken business 101! You know what I mean?
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Tokyo Rude · Joined: 28 Mar 2007 Location: I'm on the phone Derrick!

9:50 PM huh Amp'd went out of buisness
I didn't see that one coming.
Where you at?
psiga.mp3: I forget who Amp'd--oh, the cell people.
WHERE
YOU
AT
me: Man, that was terrifying.
Going back to America and seeing the big thing was YOU CAN SEE WHERE YOUR FRIENDS SHITTTTTT
9:51 PM psiga.mp3: They've filed chapter 11, but I got the impression that was restructuring rather than KTHXBAI
Hahaha
me: Where in Japan it's "Find the best route possible to your Job meeting via auto calling a taxi service, bus and train times."
9:52 PM There's also a feature that will automaticly send an email to someone when I arrive somewhere.
psiga.mp3: Awesome.
me: Meanwhile
WHERE YOU AT DOG?
psiga.mp3: beebeep
me: DO YOU KNOW YOU CAN GET THE LATEST TUNES AS YOUR ANNOYING RINGER?
9:53 PM psiga.mp3: beebeep
me: DOG, USE YOUR CELLPHONE AS A WALKY TALKY
psiga.mp3: beebeep
ad nauseum
me: WHERE YOU AT?
psiga.mp3: ;_;

haircute, Where you at?

Maztorre · Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: Ireland

Wait, are mobile phones still "new" in America?

Predator Goose · Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Location: Oversensitive Pedantic Ninny

evnvnv · Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 2:57 pm

this is the kind of story that writers for weekend update, et al just go absolutely nuts for

i wish there was some way to track all the one liners this could potentially spawn

taidan · Joined: 05 Dec 2006

So they tried to attract the urban youth market, and found out no one wanted to pay the bills. I'm not at all surprised. When I was in college people would still look at me cross eyed whenever I went online to pay my Sprint bill. Kids get cell phones from a pretty young age now, and I think a lot of them find responsibly paying for your own bill to be a foreign concept.

Takashi · Joined: 04 Dec 2006

Geez, americans still keep pushing service contracts? I thought that was a dying breed - prepaid phone cards (a Portuguese invention, no matter what Wikipedia says) is what everybody uses to mug the youth out of their money, nowdays.

EDIT: Current ratio of penetration : 2,5 cellphones per person in Portugal.

EDIT: Oh. Terrorists. Fine, then.
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Endless · Joined: 31 Jan 2007

Not black people persey, just anyone who would purchase a "My Humps" ringtone...

On second thought, yeah, a lot of that figure does include black people
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haircute · Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 5:32 am

extrabastardformula · Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 5:47 pm

yo, that where you at thing is Boost Mobile, or how Sprint brands themselves to urban folks with poor credit looking for a prepaid that isn't vultures.

Amped was for overpriviledged kids who never needed to be personally responsible in their lives.
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Mr. Apol · Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 12:54 am

vinc's taking up for the black man, in a land that no darkie dare tread
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inmatarian · Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 3:34 am

Oh god yes, does that mean that everyone will stop using those god aweful cellphones, or does that just mean more nextel Boosts, which are worse?
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Ashura · Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Location: Far East of Eden

My buddy and I have been trying to figure out what to get my mom, because she'll never buy a cell phone on her own, but really needs one just in case she breaks down or something and I have to go get her.

We actually looked at Amp'd 2 days ago and were like, I dunno.. something seems wrong with that. Bad feeling.

I do need to get her something cheap, though, maybe Virgin. She'd probably not use anymore than what's on their lowest plan anyway.

Kappuru · forum bishonen Joined: 05 Dec 2006

I had virgin mobile when I was a teen, and it was a decent service. As long as she doesn't text message, the minutes should last her a while.
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Ashura · Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Location: Far East of Eden

I'm still trying to teach her how to copy and paste things on the computer, so her figuring out text messaging will probably be a while. So I think we're safe.