Jon Stewart Celebrates iPhone Arrival On Verizon, Trashes AT&T

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by Tommy Christopher | 11:43 pm, January 11th, 2011

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On Tuesday night’s The Daily Show, host Jon Stewart heralded the availability of the iPhone to Verizon Wireless customers, breaking the exclusive stranglehold on the devices by much-maligned AT&T. In a bit that comically equated the news to the fall of Baghdad and the end of World War II, correspondent John Oliver chronicled just the latest cruel blow to the once-proud monopoly.

It’s a pretty funny bit, but the best joke I heard about this today was from someone on Morning Joe (Willie Geist, maybe?) who said that AT&T will now begin focusing on its long-neglected telegraph business.

Here’s the clip, from Comedy Central:

I’m already a Verizon customer, and I’m perfectly happy with my Droid (which shoots awesome video), but this is still somewhat sweet for me. I view this as payback for this relentlessly annoying AT&T commercial that, coincidentally, illustrates just how far the mighty have fallen:

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http://www.facebook.com/people/Josh-Feldman/1158574704 Josh Feldman

I think it’s nice to know that no matter our politics, no matter what other differences we may have, we can all come together in the shared belief that AT&T sucks.
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Josh Feldman said:
I think it’s nice to know that no matter our politics, no matter what other differences we may have, we can all come together in the shared belief that AT&T sucks.

Yep, and T-Mobile is worse. I lived for 2 1/2 years in Korea and never had or heard of anyone else having a dropped call. We are really behind in terms of technology. I iss the 36 mbs internet download speeds and the 20 mbs upload speeds.
Socialist

Josh Feldman said:
I think it’s nice to know that no matter our politics, no matter what other differences we may have, we can all come together in the shared belief that AT&T sucks.

lol ikr.. AT&T is just piece of S*&t for the price you pay for it.. and yes there is bipartisanship :-P
Tucker P.

Verizon and AT&T have crap for service . I have Verizon .
If laws would make them rebate for dropped calls . Or hold them more accountable to provide the service they sell . Then they would put more money in Service rather then Sports !
bealzebubba

I guess it depends on where you are. I’m on an Android, have great VZW service up here in Atlanta but service isn’t all that great when I go to Jacksonville, FL…just depends.

Excited about the iPhone though I’m waiting until July…iPhone 5 will likely launch in June.