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 ·Verizon FiOS
| Eh... Apple has pulled a Janus before...the most famous stab was Intel switch from PPC.
What is to stop Apple from jumping ship, or even adding other carriers, much like Moto/Sam/LG/RIM makes phones for multiple carriers?
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 r81984Fair and BalancedPremium
join:2001-11-14
Katy, TX
·AT&T U-Verse
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| said by cableties:Apple has pulled a Janus before...the most famous stab was Intel switch from PPC. What is to stop Apple from jumping ship, or even adding other carriers, much like Moto/Sam/LG/RIM makes phones for multiple carriers? Nothing, Apple wants the carriers to bid for their product and the highest bidder won.
If Apple thought they could make more money making phones for Verizon and ATT at the same time they would. Unfortunately their data shows if they do an exclusivity deal with the highest bidder they make more money.
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| said by r81984:Nothing, Apple wants the carriers to bid for their product and the highest bidder won. If Apple thought they could make more money making phones for Verizon and ATT at the same time they would. Unfortunately their data shows if they do an exclusivity deal with the highest bidder they make more money. Actually the story with the iPhone is that Apple initially approached Verizon who turned them away.
Doesn't matter to me that the iPhone won't be on VZW. I'm not a kool-aid drinker and I'm glad that data hogging iPhones will stay on AT&T. |
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MRCUR
join:2007-03-09
Columbia, PA | I really think it came down to the control Apple wanted. Look at how much AT&T had to give up with the iPhone: OS updates, support, apps, voicemail, etc. Look at how VZW locks down their phones and tries to make everything VZW branded and it's clear they wouldn't be okay with the iPhone. |
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