Re: Suprised!

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Jim Gurd Premium join:2000-07-08 Plymouth, MI	reply to Pirate515 Re: Suprised! said by Pirate515: Apple should have simply sold them unlocked. That would have allowed them to sell them to both AT&T and T-Mobile customers. I can't figure out why they didn't. That would have given them far more potential sales. Since it supports Edge only they could have made a quad band, unlocked version that could have been sold worldwide. Very shortsighted of them not to do so. -- We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company. -- Ernestine
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en102 Canadian, eh? join:2001-01-26 Valencia, CA	It was kind of a 'double' lock. Phones had to be registered through Apple (iTunes?) if I'm not mistaken. Sounds like there was a bit of a power struggle on this one. AT&T wants the cool phone (sans 3G thanks to Apple), and locks the WiFi to require AT&T subscription. Apple wants revenue from both iTunes and hardware sales, and requires registration through iTunes. While I don't agree with this not being a 3G phone, I do like that it is GSM, and usable worldwide. A CDMA variant would be good in the US/Canada/South Korea/Mexico and a few other places. Face it.. GSM globally has 2.5billion subscribers, CDMA 387 million. More than a 6:1 advantage by population. -- Canada = Hollywood North
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