All of you guys using Task Managers are idiots. Totally pointless.

Because text messaging on Virgin Mobile actually works properly (unlike Boost where sometimes messages don't arrive until days after they are sent).

MetroPCS's most expensive plan is $50:
$50 (Unlimited voice, unlimited text, unlimited data) + $10 (BES) = $60

As others have already pointed out, your comparison is meaningless because T-Mobile's $50 unlimited plan isn't available to new customers and is being marketed as a limited-time promotion. Furthermore, do you really think that T-Mobile would even be experimenting with this at all without the competition from MetroPCS and Cricket? Setting all that aside though, let's go with your comparison anyway (except we'll do it accurately this time).

T-Mobile:
$50 (Unlimited Loyalty voice, unlimited text) + $35 (BES, unlimited data, unlimited text) = $85

Let's stop pretending that $25 per month isn't a significant difference. And again, the T-Mobile plan is only possible if you have been with them for almost two years and if you meet their selection criteria.

The site seems to be back up now.

Why are we still harping on the lack of backwards compatibility?

Do consumers notice the awful BC on the Xbox 360 that Microsoft has done almost nothing to support within the past year? No, they don't really seem to care that much. The type of consumer who does still has an option in the 80GB and 60GB models.

With most analysts estimating a Microsoft loss of around $120 for every 360 that they sell it is hardly surprising that they keep their wireless technology proprietary. If Nyko and Pelican started making cheap Wireless controllers that worked with the 360 one of their primary methods of recouping this loss would be materially harmed. I still think Microsoft and Sony are both playing around with a very silly business model. How about you guys sell a product at a profit? Zany. $1.2 Billion loss on the Xbox 360 so far and most people would assume that it has been successful.

Hopefully Microsoft will license their Wireless tech to Red Octane for a solid controller. I'm sure people would be willing to pay whatever premium was necessary.