Leander Kahney reports for Cult of Mac, “The action is in protest of comments made by a company executive that some iPhone users are using too much data.”
Kahney reports, “Contacted by CultofMac.com, an AT&T spokesman said: ‘We understand that fakesteve.net is primarily a satirical forum, but there is nothing amusing about advocating that customers attempt to deliberately degrade service on a network that provides critical communications services for more than 80 million customers. We know that the vast majority of customers will see this action for what it is: an irresponsible and pointless scheme to draw attention to a blog.'”
“The AT&T spokesman doubted the action — if it goes ahead — will have much effect,” Kahney reports. “There’s only about 300 participants committed to take part, according to a Facebook fan page set up for the event.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Once a royal asshole, always a royal asshole.
He is intermittently amusing however.
This is the exact same Daniel Lyons who authored that infamous 2005 Forbes article, which called bloggers a “lynch mob”. Self-fulfilling prophecy much?
MW: figures
What a turd.
I got an idea. Let’s try to take down fakesteve.net by everyone ignoring it at once. Ready… go!
Haha. Dumb Bell got spanked by Ma Bell.
ten year from now…when Lyons has moved on and taken a job at Burger King…he will look back at this period in his life and think…
“What the hell was I thinking?”
Dan Lyons is an idiot.
Anybody concerned about mobile service should read Kathy Huberty’s (Morgan Stanley) report on mobile usage.
No other carrier could have handled the sudden influx of data usage as well as ATT has. Yes there are problems, but if you were a Verizon customer you’d be ready to slit your wrists in frustration. CDMA is a voice network. It handles data poorly, simultaneous voice/data not at all, and the same influx of data users that the iPhone generated, would bring it to its knees.
I’m going to put my iPhone on Airplane Mode on Friday and forward my calls.
I think he’s out of line.
ATnT had some good ads in the WSJ yesterday.
Fake SteveJobs is funny, but that is irrelevant to “operation chokehold.” If I were AT&T;, I would be very vigilant about the network this Friday, 12/18, and very very careful about what they say.
I would definitely not have said that we doubt that it will have any effect because only 300 people have committed to it on Facebook. These stunts have a history of going viral and daring techies and their ilk usually results in much greater numbers of participants than anticipated or predicted.
Be very careful, AT&T;! Be ready….
Maybe it should have been called Operation ChickenChoke.
@ pr
Burger King wouldn’t hire Lyons because their jobs requires some level of common sense and self awareness the two traits that Lyons lacks.
The Obama or next Bush administration might find a position for him on the White House Janitorial staff or a Cabinet Post same requirements.
AT&T;should file legal action for instigating a denial of service attack.
thats digital trrism and the feds should stop by to see him.
So, he’s going to protest an accusation that iPhone users use too much data by organizing an angry mob of iPhone users to use too much data, thereby proving the otherwise irrelavent comments by a forgettable executive to be completely true.
Nice going, Forrest.
“….but there is nothing amusing about advocating that customers attempt to deliberately degrade service on a network that provides critical communications services for more than 80 million customers. “
Couldn’t this just as easily be re-worded to….
“…but there is nothing amusing about a company not upgrading service on a network that provides critical communications services for more than 80 million customers. “
If you think this is irresponsible on ONE DAY, why do you allow the network to remain sub-standard EVERYDAY!!
The ironic thing is that I knew about the ‘chokehold’, but knew nothing about who was behind it until AT&T;mentioned its name!
Fake Steve is funny as hell.
Read this article for a great laugh:
http://tinyurl.com/ycw7c9p
Hmmm… It seems to be down a the moment. Perhaps it will be back up later.
*shrug*
elgato has just introduced the perfect app for Operation Chokehold – their new Live3g web app to watch your TV service on an iPhone.
@Deus Ex Technica: Maybe we should call it “Operation Self-Incrimination”. Anyone involved should carry a big sign that tells ATT to kick that roadhog off the network.
@Quad Core: Except they are upgrading the network service. If you want to argue that they aren’t doing enough, that’s different than what you were saying.
Noon, Friday, Dec. 18:
“Yes, and “Operation Chokehold” is in effect… aaaaaannnnnddd… BAM! Haha! The network is down!!! Yes!! We win!! We sure showed those idiots at AT&T;!!! I’m going to post about this to my Twitte- oh wait.”
“Couldn’t this just as easily be re-worded to….
“…but there is nothing amusing about a company not upgrading service on a network that provides critical communications services for more than 80 million customers.”
What an uninformed jerk. ATT spent over $40 Billion during 2009 alone upgrading its network. The “problem” isn’t the network, its the wholly unexpected explosion in data usage created by iPhone users. Read Morgan Stanley’s report on that, along with a few others.
Dumb fsck.
@’typemaster’
Go into the street and ask 500 people if they’ve ever heard of DL aka the ‘fake Steve Jobs’.
Then ask those three people if they’re participating in this idiotic ‘boycott’.
Viral my a**.