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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
You made a direct statement. I addressed it. That you had other points is irrelevant to me. You were wrong on that one, at least where I'm concerned.
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You decided to trash my argument on the basis that my generalisation does not apply to
you personally, from there you seem to have concluded that it cannot apply to anyone else either.
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Of course, but you flat-out said the only way to get a smartphone was to buy it on credit, and you were wrong.
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Nope i said:
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Freebie smart phone? wheres mine then? they are not 'free'  we pay for them over a period of 12 months or more!
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Maybe not YOU, but that is how most people aquire the latest handsets, though contracts or payment plans (12 months+) of course you can buy any handset outright from a retailer or network provider on pay-as-you-go, but this means parting with a lump sum of cash up front - also not free! (we are talking hundreds of $$ for the most desirable hand sets)
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I have a blackberry-capable (which I never use) and very functional phone I paid $30 for. No plan. I pay by the minute - $15 per month, and I can drop it any time I want.
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So you payed $30 for a phone worth about $30 like a reasonably modest person, now do all the Non-Steves out their do that too? As you are about to point out - they do not.
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Unlike some, I don't talk 1000 minutes per month. I don't even talk 100 minutes per month. If you're stupidly addicted to your phone then sure, you have to pay a lot. That's not anybody's fault but your own.
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Yep again, those
'someones' happen to be an awful lot of people.
Steve the problem I'm having with your argument is that; you keep refering to youself as the only given example to prove wrong an argument that concerns millions of other people.
I must be wrong because what I said wasn't true of
you personally, where as what Tater said, was.
