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iPhone data plan terms and conditions
I downgraded my iPhone data-plan this morning. Like most iPhone owners, I was on the unlimited $30/month unlimited plan. After looking at my data usage over the past few months (which AT&T conveniently charts for you - see below), I realized I haven't even crossed 200MB once. It made no sense to continue to be on the unlimited plan.
The final step of the downgrade process requires you to agree to the standard legalese of terms and conditions. I usually skip over these things, but this snippet caught my attention:
DataPlus 200MB for iPhone may only be used for the following purposes: (i) internet browsing, (ii) personal email, and (iii) consumer applications. Using iPhone to access corporate email, company intranet sites, and/or other business solutions/applications is prohibited.
That's an interesting bit right there. I may be reading it too literally, but as written, anyone reading their work email on their iPhone would be violating these terms. I'd say that's the vast majority of iPhone users.
Seen in Canada
(Warning: the following may only be interesting to those of you obsessed with cars, as I am.)
I was in British Columbia a few weeks ago on vacation, and I happened to see this outside the hotel:
An Acura CSX.
If it looks familiar to some of you, it should: it's just a Honda Civic. I was amazed that Honda is able to pull off this bait-and-switch. Honda basically slaps on a couple Acura badges on it's ever-popular Civic, adds a dash of brown plastic wood, changes the tail lights, and voilà: a second-rate luxury car is born.
And best of all, Honda probably charges much, much more for the glorified Civic CSX. Interestingly enough, the CSX is only available in Canada.
Leadership
"Maybe the hardest part of leadership—be it leading a company, a family, a relationship or simply your own life—is that often times you don’t know and you have to still have to act. Leadership in some ways is built on learning to be comfortable with not knowing, with imperfect knowledge, with the inherent uncertainty of it all."
-Pema Chodron in Comfortable with Uncertainty
