This is, without a doubt, the best comment ever on TechCrunch. Left by “J” on MG’s latest iPhone rant about the Google Voice debacle. Beautiful.
AT&T: You want answers?
TechCrunch: We think we’re entitled to them.
AT&T: You want answers?!
TechCrunch: We want Google Voice on our iPhones.
AT&T: You can’t handle the iPhone with Google Voice!
Son, we operate on network that has walls. And those walls have to be guarded by carriers with restrictions. Who’s gonna do it? You? You, Verizon Wireless? We have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Google Voice and you curse AT&T. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what we know: That pulling Google Voice, while tragic, probably saved the network. And our existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves the network.
You don’t want the Google Voice on your iPhone. Because deep down, in places you don’t talk about at TechCrunch50, you want us protecting the network. You need us protecting that network. We use words like rate limiting, application approval and restrictions…we use these words as the backbone to a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline.
We have neither the time nor the inclination to explain ourselves to a blog who writes and profits under the blanket of the very network that we provide, then questions the manner in which we provide it. We’d prefer you just said thank you and went on your way. Otherwise, we suggest you pick up a router and build your own network. Either way, We don’t give a damn what you think you’re entitled to.
TechCrunch: Did you order Google Voice taken down?
AT&T: We did the job you sent us to do.
TechCrunch: Did you order Google Voice taken down?
AT&T: You’re goddamn right we did.
I’m totally unsubscribing from techcrunch, all you do is cover that bloody twitter! damn you techcrunch!
^^ followed by the worst comment ever
only fitting.
AAHAHAH! @seanpercival. Well said.
Apple fanboi + Google fanboi = Murder of AT&T, what else?
Totally – what a buzz killer.
+1!
oh wait, I did log out of TechCrunch and comment anonymously, right?
et tu J, err I mean Robin
oh my….. my…. my….
AT&T gonna love this.
A Few Good Phones…
LOL
ugh.
By the way, this one is still in the running imho:
http://robinwau...ent-thread-ever
Robin, I’m with you on that.
Yes. Hilarious.
I concur. This is absolutely brilliant!! Kudos.
ROFL! nice.
Love it! People hatin’ on MG’s posts need to chill; no one ordained TC to be The Wall Street Journal. I personally come here to not only be informed of the latest start-up info and corporate intrigue, but to also be entertained by the silly, off the cuff posts and discussions.
Keep ‘em coming!
I hereby, with the power vested in me by the state of Wisconsin, ordain TechCrunch to be The Wall Street Journal.
Amazing.
btw GV Mobile is now on Cydia
http://bit.ly/10cS5c
for the rejoice of jailbreakers
Re GV Mobile. You knew that one was coming. Spotify is coming to Cydia right behind.
I’ll take 10:1 odds that Spotify never sees the legit light of day. I wish it would but no way. Jailbreaking is looking a lot lot nicer.
wow – you guys need to get out more.
Thats a bit harsh!
I thought it was good.
lol well obviously thinking something is good or humourous indicates that you, but me as well, live at home with the parentals. apparently WE need to get a life but look at what b6 posted…that was a waste of time and space.
Nice work, J!
If you Tweeted it with #TechCrunch50; you could have won one of those fancy tickets. Oh wait, too many characters.
You goddamn right, it is a great article!. Haha
Wow, this is the worst article ever.
LOVE IT! ROTFLMAO!!!!!!
Amen! God I hate execs! Their shit does stink!
everybody’s shit stinks
Damn that was funny!
I CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH AHHH!!!!!!
MY VIRGIN EYES ARE BURNING
LMAO!!!
ROFL. Brilliant. To bad they didn’t mention the sling box App or the 3-day late voice messages.
This comment was totally DOPE DUDE!
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Can someone answer me this….
if its at&t is forcing apple to block the google voice app. then why cant we people have it in the UK? does o2 want it blocked as well?
that’s easy. google voice doesn’t work in the UK.
In this case it’s easy. But does when AT&T makes a decision about an app, does Apple enforce than in every county?
That answer would be yes: AT&T said no tethering, and therefore iPhones across the world didn’t have tethering, until 3.0.
I’m so tired of it but I’ve come to accept that as long as I’m not living in the USA I will be treated like a second-class consumer. Maybe third-class, with the Europeans coming in second.
https://www.goo...etupUnavailable
:
“Google Voice is not available in your country.
Thanks for visiting Google Voice. We’re not yet open for users outside the US, but are planning to expand our service to additional countries in the future.”
Apple knows the future?
“Can someone answer me this….
if its at&t is forcing apple to block the google voice app. then why cant we people have it in the UK? does o2 want it blocked as well?”
BOOOORRRRIIINGGGGG!!!
Of course what makes it the best from TC’s point of view is that each remark can fit in a tweet.
You’re welcome, world.
fucking hilarious…good job guy
You really shouldn’t post a comment this good under a pseudonym.
Why do you want to remain anonymous?
I can feel another hitler video clip with AT & T subtitles coming on.
What I don’t understand is how it protects the network to block Google Voice, I understand that the bandwidth is overwhelmed and that’s why they block things like slingbox and hulu, but the google voice apps use relatively low bandwidth considering.
I understand, though don’t agree with, why they block skype, they don’t want you using their bandwidth to get around their minute rates on the phone, but google voice doesn’t do that, in fact, it does quite the opposite.
Google Voice is not VoIP in that talking through it goes through the data plan. A small request is made over data to initiate the communication, and then a phone call, a good ole fashioned phone call is made. This phone call goes out only over the voice network, and guess what, that phone call is not an AT&T Wireless customer, it’s Google, which means when you are talking on that call you are PAYING for that call on AT&T.
Like most wireless providers, a phone call on AT&T to another AT&T is free (they call it unlimited mobile-to-mobile).
When you go through Google Voice (even to call another AT&T Customer) to make that call you are no longer calling a mobile number, you are calling what AT&T will see as a land line, and that call is charged at AT&T’s normal per-minute rate.
I would think that AT&T would be ecstatic that people want to use Google Voice because they will end up paying for a lot of calls that they wouldn’t otherwise have paid for.
And you know what, blocking the app isn’t going to stop people from using Google Voice anyway because it’s still available as a mobile web app.
The only thing that blocking Google Voice apps is going to do is piss off customers.
Way to go AT&T and Apple for pissing off customers, not saving your precious network, and possibly losing out on a lot more money from calls that you could charge for.
And it’s now available for jailbroken phones.
it wouldn’t take much for Google Voice to eventually connect to a native Google Talk app. AT&T saw what Google was up to.
can’t stop em though. Voice will soon be free.
So block the native google talk app, VoIP is against the TOS for iPhone Developers (unless it is restricted to WiFi only), there’s no reason to block Google Voice in it’s current form.
You forgot about the free sms through Google Voice.
LOL!!
WiMax.
WiMax.
WiMax.
Wi freaking Max.
LTE LTE LTE
White Spaces FTW
We CAN actually build our own free wireless broadband network, by installing 1 million such routers on our ADSL and Cable lines, at a minuscule cost of $20 per router, we can actually cover the whole planet with free wireless broadband.
AT&T doesn’t want us to create free wireless broadband on the 700mhz spectrum.
Checkout http://fon.com
With meager few million dollars in investment in WiFi routers, they built the worlds largest WiFi community, by 1 million users all sharing WiFi at home.
Now imagine FON on 700mhz white spaces. For a meagre $50 Million investment in new router equipment, and 1 million volunteers to install those new routers for free at their windows connected up to whatever ADSL or Cable Internet normal people have at home, you can have a whole country like USA covered with reliable free wireless broadband for all.
You can ask Google, they’ve got prototypes that are working and only need approval of the FCC before they unleash free wireless broadband plan to the world.
700mhz White Spaces goes through walls, it reaches up to several miles with just a little antennae that can fit in a $20 router.
this is crazy.
Your world. Rended.
LOL!
one of the best comments I have seen in a while
Cool nice super loco!
Unfortunately, that comment (and the video) makes a lot of sense. Jack Nicholson is a great actor btw
Great comment. Jack Nicholson is also a great actor
Self. Proclaimed. Second. Best. Comment. Ever.
AT&T: I’m standin’ here. You make the move.
You make the move.
It’s your move.
Don’t try it, you f@ck.
You talkin’ to me?
You talkin’ to me?
You talkin’ to me?
Then who the hell else are you talking – You talking to me?
Well, I’m the only one here.
Who the f@ck do you think you’re talking to?
wow! that’s good!
that is awesome. good job.
any excuse to watch that clip again is fine with me. awesome.
Somewhere Aaron Sorkin is smiling
i just like reading along as the clip plays. so awesome.
It’s funny because it’s true.
Wow, seems like TechCrunch have lowered the bar to get coverage these days. See kids, want to get coverage for your web startup, just leave a stupid and highly unfunny comment on TechCrunch and you’re set.
well, at least a little bit funny. give me that at least.
pay $200, add that new text to that video clip, upload it to youtube and it would go viral within days.. add a link to your blog and you’d grow the exposure… a ton… not even mentioning bringing attention to that issue…
This has been one of the better posts on TechCrunch lately and a nice break from MG’s rant-athon.
BTW, MG’s normal blood group is probably A+ (A positive), but he also belongs to the very special blood group, M- (M negative).
I surely remember that movie
Nice post TC, quite funny.
I love the fucking internet.
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God your CSS is sloppy.
You have bugs in your code
First letter of property and method names are never capitalized, so it should be hasFrozenOver. Also, object are usually not compared with “==”, so it should probably be techCrunch.equals(tomCruise)
Your code finally returns hell
It is funny.
The only part that’s sad is that Jack Nicholson’s character broke the law and admitted it in that clip.
AT&T and Apple haven’t broken the law, that we know of. This falls under the category of the crime being what’s legal.
Did that wanker Carr post it…ya know…anom?
Actually one helluva post! Haven’t laughed that hard since that ChaCha pic!
Arrington.. here is a tip.. spend $200 buck to take that clip and add the voice overlay of that text.. then upload it to youtube..with a link to MGs article.. that thing would go viral within days… and your blog would get exposure you wouldn’t believe it…
How did you determine that this would cost exactly $200?
that’s my guess if you’d outsource it to a professional using elance… (likely done somewhere in India)… I have done a lot of work like that…
Remind me again why this was the best comment ever??
Because it’s on Techcrunch.
You frakkin’ people. You think you’re defending an application. All you did was weaken a wireless network today, Siegler. That’s all you did. You put people’s 911 calls in danger. Sweet dreams, son.
The “network” is not a public good, it’s something we actually pay for (and pay good money), so how about AT&T stops b**ching and moaning and starts to provide the level of service that they should?
P.S. The only reason I am AT&T customer is because of iPhone. Thousands of others are in the same shoes. Goddamn you, Apple