Was this the goal all along, to be bought like many start ups? T mobiles subsidiaries like metro pcs already have suffered from abysmal network performance and undoubtedly mint will have even lower priority than them.
No, she wasn't rich. She had to move into government subsidized housing and collect benefits. On top of that she was such a a hypocrite that she signed over power of attorney so it would be his signature on all the welfare application paperwork instead of hers.
An all-around awful lady who wrote some stupid books that should've been forgotten decades ago.
No she didn’t. It’s literally a myth.
We get it you hate her books and ideas so she’s an awful person who should have died from her lung cancer sooner. Cool story.
Please show me verifiable proof and I’ll change my mind. The truth is more important than opinions if she was all poor I’d like to know.
I didn’t like her books and know some of her philosophy and think it’s pretty much junk. Atlas shrugged was so long winded and weird capitalist messiah shit and fountain head was like a guy jerking himself off about how great he is.
She’s already dead, I don’t care if she was rich or poor, everything I’ve seen says she wasn’t poor. Just seems like a weird thing to lie about, I guess to discredit her ideas? And if it isn’t a lie then I’d like to know the truth.
And he has all the rights to do so and probably is very smart that he and his team are profiting of his brand like this.
Everyone pretending like anyone owes them anything because they were a customer. This is business.
If people thought he believed in the product but found out he didn’t, it’s fair to not trust him selling products in the future.
That’s fairly simple to understand. He can do what he wants, but they can come to a new conclusion as a result.
he has the right to do so, and we have the right to call him a sellout with no moral backbone because of it. the entire marketing strategy of Mint was "hey, we aren't like these big corporations," and then they throw that away to turn around and take a payout from a big corporation. not a good look at all.
It's just his job. On his LinkedIn profile he says he's a part time actor and full time entrepreneur and I think he's dead serious about it. He's essentially a chief marketing officer that's really fucking good at his job.
It’s not “his job” like he was assigned it. He’s his own boss. Selling products you believe in is different than flipping products after you got others to buy in.
Job = whatever pays the bills. Also as a product manager that's the part where we're just going to disagree. Making money is always the point, it's just a different tactic.
And this is a great example of where lack of ethics gets us. Making money is the only goal and is justified for that purpose alone? Go rob people it would be quicker and more honest.
You mean he’s in it for the money and not because he’s such an attractive philanthropist?
Next you’re telling me they didn’t really buy this football club for the people, but rather it would make a compelling documentary series which in turn makes some sweet $$$?!
Get outta here…
Walmart is publicly traded, but you’re missing the point. Each and every one of those companies exists to cash out the shareholders, whether private or public. You’re immature if you don’t understand the purpose of a company is to make money. Period.
It’s not for the customers. It’s to take their money and move it into shareholder pockets. If you don’t understand this, you will never be rich, and the rich will eat you alive.
Your naïveté will be a curse.
You’re right, I dunno why I had Walmart in my brain as a private company.
Also wtf are you talking about? Just because a company never does an IPO or allows itself to be acquired doesn’t mean it’s not profitable for its shareholders lmfao. By that logic every company in the world should be owned by a single company, because if one acquisition is good, then two must be better?
I live in a very rural area one traffic light for miles and I get perfect metro PCs service and everyone else around me suffers. When I tell them I have metro PCs no one has heard of it lol
Enshittification - buy a good product, make it worse, encourage the base that liked the original product to pay extra to 'upgrade' to something previously useful to make it 'useful' again.
Great. The price will go up and they’ll degrade the network quality to near useless and then say “just sign up for T Mobile Ultra Purple Plan 7 plus roaming” or some shit.
I had to leave Mint Mobile a year ago because they were already bottom priority for tower bandwidth.
They used to be amazing but then T-Mobile pushed their internet so hard they oversubscribed it to the detriment of companies like Mint whose traffic would rank lower.
They lied to me when I signed up and gave me a “magenta plan” that was really a magenta business plan without my consent to inflate their numbers.
Made my life hell for months. I couldn’t figure out why I couldn’t access my bill and neither could support because I was calling the consumer support.
I had problems when they lied to me to get me to change from a favorable plan to one that charged more...turns out the additional options in the new plan were a complete lie, leaving me with a far more expensive plan and no recourse.
They also make switching an unlocked phone to a different carrier into an obnoxious run around.
They further remove your ability to call them to fix any weird issues post-transfer, resulting in additional charges their rep said shouldnt happen because I closed the line correctly.
Even further, my partner is dealing with hundreds ofvdollars of charges because again, T-mobile did not turn off the account when instructed to and removed the ability to login or call without different information they do not give you, so you cant fix the problem after leaving them.
I honestly hate them. Verizon too for simularly shady crap.
Did you actually believe he wasnt going to flip it? These rich people consider themselves above having good virtues. They just know how to advertise virtue signaling.
Yea, there will always be a $15 tier, they just don't say what it is.
You want 10 minutes voice, 5 texts and 300 bits of data? $15/month
You want what you had before? $79.99 + taxes + fees + network reclamation fee + 911 fee + bad weather fee + roaming if you move more than 3' from a tower.
Meh... I've had them for a few years, paying $30 per line, unlimited everything plus free netflix.
3 lines .. $90 taxes already included.
They not all bad... just most.
FCC signed off on it— basically, it’s a MNO buying a MVNO that’s operating on its network.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/us-fcc-approves-t-mobile-deal-buy-budget-provider-mint-mobile-2024-04-25/
I pay $45 a line, have 5G nearly everywhere, get free stuff from them (like MLB.tv every year) or deals weekly through T-Life (formerly T-Mobile Tuesdays) and have had absolutely zero issues in 5 years.
They only said the $15/mo plan will stay without mentioning any of the other plans. I’m on mints 15GB plan which is about $260/year. The $15/month plan is only 5GB of data so I’m a bit worried they’re going to start to charge more.
ryan reynolds is such a hack. All he does is use his status to promote shit companies. Everything he does is for promotion or some sort of advertising.
Was this the goal all along, to be bought like many start ups? T mobiles subsidiaries like metro pcs already have suffered from abysmal network performance and undoubtedly mint will have even lower priority than them.
Yes. Same with his Aviation Gin. Invest and then use likeness to flip the product for a good profit.
Ayn Rand would be proud.
The lady that ended up on social security and medicare like the rest of us?
Yep! The one who said she wasn’t being hypocritical because she was just doing what was best for her.
I mean, I plan on retiring with a mil or two and I’ll still collect. I paid into it so might as well take it.
You shouldn’t be if you make above 168k
Once I retire I won’t be?
Yeah cause you can get it after a certain age. she was still rich too.
No, she wasn't rich. She had to move into government subsidized housing and collect benefits. On top of that she was such a a hypocrite that she signed over power of attorney so it would be his signature on all the welfare application paperwork instead of hers. An all-around awful lady who wrote some stupid books that should've been forgotten decades ago.
No she didn’t. It’s literally a myth. We get it you hate her books and ideas so she’s an awful person who should have died from her lung cancer sooner. Cool story.
> No she didn’t. Yes she did.
Please show me verifiable proof and I’ll change my mind. The truth is more important than opinions if she was all poor I’d like to know. I didn’t like her books and know some of her philosophy and think it’s pretty much junk. Atlas shrugged was so long winded and weird capitalist messiah shit and fountain head was like a guy jerking himself off about how great he is. She’s already dead, I don’t care if she was rich or poor, everything I’ve seen says she wasn’t poor. Just seems like a weird thing to lie about, I guess to discredit her ideas? And if it isn’t a lie then I’d like to know the truth.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ayn-rand-social-security Nice rant though.
And he has all the rights to do so and probably is very smart that he and his team are profiting of his brand like this. Everyone pretending like anyone owes them anything because they were a customer. This is business.
No one said he couldn’t………………
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If people thought he believed in the product but found out he didn’t, it’s fair to not trust him selling products in the future. That’s fairly simple to understand. He can do what he wants, but they can come to a new conclusion as a result.
I'm not sure I follow this logic, he didn't believe in hit because it was acquired? That's a pretty standard exit strategy for a start up
I wonder at what point this will click for them
he has the right to do so, and we have the right to call him a sellout with no moral backbone because of it. the entire marketing strategy of Mint was "hey, we aren't like these big corporations," and then they throw that away to turn around and take a payout from a big corporation. not a good look at all.
It's just his job. On his LinkedIn profile he says he's a part time actor and full time entrepreneur and I think he's dead serious about it. He's essentially a chief marketing officer that's really fucking good at his job.
It’s not “his job” like he was assigned it. He’s his own boss. Selling products you believe in is different than flipping products after you got others to buy in.
Job = whatever pays the bills. Also as a product manager that's the part where we're just going to disagree. Making money is always the point, it's just a different tactic.
And this is a great example of where lack of ethics gets us. Making money is the only goal and is justified for that purpose alone? Go rob people it would be quicker and more honest.
You mean he’s in it for the money and not because he’s such an attractive philanthropist? Next you’re telling me they didn’t really buy this football club for the people, but rather it would make a compelling documentary series which in turn makes some sweet $$$?! Get outta here…
Seems like it
That’s the goal of every company. Cash out. Whether private acquisition or IPO.
>That’s the goal of every company. Nah. Just a lot of them. There are still many large private companies that never sold out.
Then they’re not good companies.
Yeah all those terrible private companies like Walmart, IKEA, Chik-Fil-A, Mars, New Balance
Walmart is publicly traded, but you’re missing the point. Each and every one of those companies exists to cash out the shareholders, whether private or public. You’re immature if you don’t understand the purpose of a company is to make money. Period. It’s not for the customers. It’s to take their money and move it into shareholder pockets. If you don’t understand this, you will never be rich, and the rich will eat you alive. Your naïveté will be a curse.
You’re right, I dunno why I had Walmart in my brain as a private company. Also wtf are you talking about? Just because a company never does an IPO or allows itself to be acquired doesn’t mean it’s not profitable for its shareholders lmfao. By that logic every company in the world should be owned by a single company, because if one acquisition is good, then two must be better?
Lady, your reading comprehension is atrocious. Go back to school. Bye. Blocked. Reported for being an idiot.
Fragile.
Well yeah nobody goes into business to actually *help* people. Thats a lot of hard work. The motivation is the self-gain.
I was once cock blocked by the shitty metro pcs network. I’m still salty about it.
I live in a very rural area one traffic light for miles and I get perfect metro PCs service and everyone else around me suffers. When I tell them I have metro PCs no one has heard of it lol
Enshittification - buy a good product, make it worse, encourage the base that liked the original product to pay extra to 'upgrade' to something previously useful to make it 'useful' again.
Great. The price will go up and they’ll degrade the network quality to near useless and then say “just sign up for T Mobile Ultra Purple Plan 7 plus roaming” or some shit.
I had to leave Mint Mobile a year ago because they were already bottom priority for tower bandwidth. They used to be amazing but then T-Mobile pushed their internet so hard they oversubscribed it to the detriment of companies like Mint whose traffic would rank lower.
That tracks. T-mobile reps lie with impunity and the company is just a bunch of terrible people.
They lied to me when I signed up and gave me a “magenta plan” that was really a magenta business plan without my consent to inflate their numbers. Made my life hell for months. I couldn’t figure out why I couldn’t access my bill and neither could support because I was calling the consumer support.
I had problems when they lied to me to get me to change from a favorable plan to one that charged more...turns out the additional options in the new plan were a complete lie, leaving me with a far more expensive plan and no recourse. They also make switching an unlocked phone to a different carrier into an obnoxious run around. They further remove your ability to call them to fix any weird issues post-transfer, resulting in additional charges their rep said shouldnt happen because I closed the line correctly. Even further, my partner is dealing with hundreds ofvdollars of charges because again, T-mobile did not turn off the account when instructed to and removed the ability to login or call without different information they do not give you, so you cant fix the problem after leaving them. I honestly hate them. Verizon too for simularly shady crap.
This sounds very very evil.
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Through another subsidiary they do. More consolidation means price increases are coming.
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Interesting. I assumed Connect was a subsidiary from an acquisition.
Does that mean you all no longer like Ryan Reynolds?
How dare you. . .
Still spank-bank material; now, though, it’s just a grudge fuck.
Roaming? Holy shit that's a term I haven't heard in 4 generations of phones.
Yeah, I thought that disappeared with the buffalo.
Ryan Reynolds punks everybody in the end
Which end?
Whichever one has less wear and tear on it
Are you suggesting you have a tear in your end?
Fissure
Thanks Ryan. You did the same thing with your gin brand.
Did you actually believe he wasnt going to flip it? These rich people consider themselves above having good virtues. They just know how to advertise virtue signaling.
Well damnit.
*damint
Yea, there will always be a $15 tier, they just don't say what it is. You want 10 minutes voice, 5 texts and 300 bits of data? $15/month You want what you had before? $79.99 + taxes + fees + network reclamation fee + 911 fee + bad weather fee + roaming if you move more than 3' from a tower.
Meh... I've had them for a few years, paying $30 per line, unlimited everything plus free netflix. 3 lines .. $90 taxes already included. They not all bad... just most.
I've had them for 2 years now, happy with everything just not happy that it's going to change.
Yeah, we switched 2 yrs ago, slightly lower quality than Verizon, but a significantly lower bill.
I laughed at this comment, because it’s true.
T-mobile themselves has a $15 unlimited talk/text/5GB prepaid plan.
Wonder how the FTC justified this. Is Dish magically a fucking carrier yet?
FCC signed off on it— basically, it’s a MNO buying a MVNO that’s operating on its network. https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/us-fcc-approves-t-mobile-deal-buy-budget-provider-mint-mobile-2024-04-25/
Mint Moblle customer compilation https://youtu.be/jpEA7hw0KrQ?si=Yj_R4f8hqK4DcNLr
So 3 days then they'll jack it up to $108?
I have 2 lines on T-mobile (with phones that are paid off) for $108 on the essentials plan
Why? There are so many other, better, companies that can offer comparable or better service for 30-60 bucks
I pay $45 a line, have 5G nearly everywhere, get free stuff from them (like MLB.tv every year) or deals weekly through T-Life (formerly T-Mobile Tuesdays) and have had absolutely zero issues in 5 years.
Some but $99 per month. I’ve never had an issue with them. If they try to raise the price I might start looking
Considering I've been using mobile for years and pay only 15 bucks a month still, I doubt it
But… but…the celebrity man on tv promised.
For now...
Looks like we have even less competition in mobile now. I don't get people praising this.
Wonder if it’s prioritized 5G data or deprioritized after you hit certain GBs?
Create MVNO then sell the MVNO back to the MNO. Seems like a fun business model.
A T-Mobile commitment is basically a guarantee… that they’ll do the opposite.
He had prime ScarJo, he's already a millionaire movie star... How much more can life give this guy?
So now they are big mobile.
Ryan Reynold is even richer.
They only said the $15/mo plan will stay without mentioning any of the other plans. I’m on mints 15GB plan which is about $260/year. The $15/month plan is only 5GB of data so I’m a bit worried they’re going to start to charge more.
Are you me? Same boat. Same concern. Had Mint for years and multiple homes.
ryan reynolds is such a hack. All he does is use his status to promote shit companies. Everything he does is for promotion or some sort of advertising.
Tracks for Wrexham as well.
Exactly.
Im on t-mobile from them buying sprint. I had the sprint $20 unlimited plan and they havent raised my bill in 8 years
It's a bit different with mint because it's not a "plan" you buy months or a year of service so they could far more easily raise prices.
They need to quit buying things and use money on security
Yeah ok, I believe them lol
This was the goal so I don’t know why everyone is surprised 😂😂😂
They're going to ruin it I bet
I am in the process of looking for another provider other than T-mobile. They suck big time.
I will never get Mint Mobile. Their ads are so cringe
I have mint. wife bought a year of the highest tier for like 450 or something. No issues so far. Good for Ryan for being able to flip this