AT&T's Next program is very similar to Jump, which lets customers pay off their phones in monthly installments and become eligible for upgrades earlier, and is just one
example of a major transformation taking place throughout the industry.
As an
example, if I set out to map the
major underwater features
of a particular lake by looking carefully from a particular point 50 feet above the surface level from one
of the banks and performing naive calculations, I may very well end up with results that will be skewed; however, the data might still be very useful and can be transformed into something much more accurate by applying the proper mathematical
transformations with physical justifications.