Saturday Night Live Skit Disses the iPhone
It looks like it's officially open season on the iPhone and AT&T's 3G coverage.
For weeks Verizon has been poking fun at AT&T's 3G coverage. Then Dan Lyons, AKA Fake Steve Jobs, got in on it and organized a digital flashmob. His plan was to have all iPhone users use a data-intensive application for one whole hour at the same time. The aim of the game was to bring down the AT&T network and send the message that users were not happy.
Now Saturday Night Live has gotten in on it. The SNL crew fired a shot at AT&T and the iPhone, declaring that although the Google Phone is supposed to challenge the iPhone, making calls with the Apple's smartphone is a challenge too.
Check out the video below (via Engadget).
SNL on Google vs. iPhone
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Lmao. Good game! That was pretty slick.
Bout time someone said it.
Yeah how does that thing work as a phone? I know one person who has one but I have never talked on it so, I honestly do not know how the sound quality is or if its comfy and all that.
Maybe some iPhone owner could enlighten me on those things. I still will probably never own one (not an AT&T fan at all...) but it would be nice to know at least second hand lol
Oh Snap!
iPhone is functionally great but battery sucks. AT&T sucks by a factor of 100 compared to the hardware. AT&T is the Achilles' heal of the iPhone.
I've heard that the IPhone has "phone" problems in Australia too, and we don't use AT&t.
The only problem I have with my iPhone is that its so freaking restrictive... I can't change my txt msg alert sound? Really Apple? Jesus.
Remember when SNL was funny more than once every 6 episodes?
Bazinga, looks like Apple and AT&T feel victim to another one of SNL's classic pranks.
The only problem I have with my iPhone is that its so freaking restrictive... I can't change my txt msg alert sound? Really Apple? Jesus.
Sounds like Apple in general.
This is great. My boss literally went on a 10 min rant about two hours ago how he's so sick of his Iphone dropping calls and not notifying him that he's not receiving calls all the time. Too good.
This is new? Mine's an iPod that can make calls if necessary, but that end of things is pretty awkward. Come to think of it, with the few supported formats, the iPod part isn't all that great either, it's just been convenient.
Then Google's CEO talks about selling the ability for insurance companies to track Android clients via GPS and I'm still waiting for something better.
I honestly rarely see people making calls with their iPhones. Admittedly, I rarely make calls with my Nokia either, it's more like a mobile browser/ IM client to me.
Remember when SNL was funny more than once every 6 episodes?
I can do you one better - I can remember when each episode was funny.
It might be less of a challenge if AT&T decided to spend some money and actually made a usable network in NYC. Don't remember the last time I've had a call that went longer than 2 min b4 dropping...