{"id":15641,"date":"2013-09-20T13:19:57","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T17:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=15641"},"modified":"2013-09-20T15:22:31","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T19:22:31","slug":"some-random-thoughts-on-ios-7-01-siri-and-buying-the-5s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/20\/some-random-thoughts-on-ios-7-01-siri-and-buying-the-5s\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Random Thoughts on iOS 7.01, Siri and Buying the 5s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I live 75 miles from the nearest Apple store but we do have an ATT store in town. I got there at 11:30 and managed to snag their last iPhone 5s. They serve a small, rural market with a total regional population of about 50,000 and received only 15 of the 5ses (?). And were sold out at 11:31. Given that I assume that every store will be sold out if they are not already.<\/p>\n<p>I traded in my 2 year old iPhone 4s for $205 so the net (with a 2 year contract) was $118 after taxes. I recognize that I could have sold my 4s on eBay but this was a convenient and trouble free option that took all of 5 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>In talking to my rep and several other ATT and Verizon reps over the past few weeks, they apparently make somewhere on the order of $5 when they sell an iPhone compared to the nearly $20 they make when they sell a Samsung. You can imagine how that changes the showroom floor dynamics with undecided customers. The moral: if you buying an iPhone from an ATT store, be polite and think about leaving a tip.<\/p>\n<p>As soon as I started to restore from backup Apple notified me that iOS 7.01 had been released. I have been playing with it on my 4s for a few days and was likeing it and while the speed was great the battery life was really sucking and acting very weird. 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