Metro PCS = T-Mobile’s network at lower prices with no throttling

HD call quality is already available if you call another phone on the same carrier network with AT&T, Verizon, or T-Mobile provided that you both have phones which support whatever that carrier is calling the technology. T-Mobile calls theirs HD Voice, and I can personally verify that the quality difference is…

Overall I’m a big fan of Google keyboard for it’s excellent performance. I have yet to try Swiftkey on my 6P, but after using Google keyboard on my friend’s Nexus 7 about 8 months ago, I was impressed with the zippyness, autocorrect accuracy, and overall UI aesthetics. Swiftkey felt a little almost imperceptibly laggy…

“there’s a case to be made that Amazon is no innocent when it comes to trying to control book prices so as to favor its own efforts to capture the book market.”

You are not wrong.

Yeah - we want to pay more money for the same product and give a huge cut of the purchase price to not the author or publisher to encourage them to create more content for us in the future, but to Apple who played no role at all.

The carriers didn’t foot any of the bill back when contracts were the norm, and they still don’t today. On a contract your monthly payments included a phone (hardware) payment. The only difference was carriers like Verizon wouldn’t cut your rates once the phone was paid off, so you’d be throwing away $30 every month…