Best Buy ran no such ad. The EMAIL that SOME reward zone members received for this didnt hit my inbox until the 7th? I believe, at 7:45(ish) pm. It wasnt really advertised anywhere, not by BB, not by Sprint. The only places I saw it talked about were on specific android forums.best buy ran an ad that let me get mine as a reward member two days early with a instant 100 rebate. I agree Sprint + Hero makes a solid and affordable phone/plan.
Sorry, I wasnt trying to imply you yourself were an Apple fanboi.I am not however one of the iZombies that flock mindlessly at the scent of anything Apple related.
Rather that the Apple spin is this. We cost more, because we have "better" or "supieror" craftsmanship, and everyone knows you get what you pay for. Which is total BS when you look at what you are getting with a Macbook Pro (for example). Same hardware on a PC based notebook is easily hundreds less. Unless of course you by into the notion that Apple has special Intel chips that are leaps and bounds better than the ones in PCs. Apply that same logic to video cards and memory as well. So while they are great at marketing, they are also great at the whole snowjob that they have overall better products.
Thats not to say the OS isnt better than Windows, or that they dont create some decent items (iPods, iTouch) but they ride that gravy train into the ground, add some much needed feature they left out, and hype it to the point some people actually think its justified to replace the old iWhatever for the new and improved iWhatever+(insert random letters here).
Anyways, yes, Sprint really should have spent some money to inform the general public about the HTC Hero and/or Android itself. Sadly, that window is all but gone now, as it would look like a pathetic attempt to "beat" VZ to the punch.
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