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So true. It's easy to forget one of Apple's greatest accomplishments is breaking the telecom industries stranglehold as mobile software gatekeepers. Telecoms al
by bayofpigs 10y ago
So true. It's easy to forget one of Apple's greatest accomplishments is breaking the telecom industries stranglehold as mobile software gatekeepers. Telecoms along with cable are still two of the biggest impediments to technology progress in the US.
- Nullabillity 10y ago.. what? Here they were the first phone (and only, because as it turns out, that business model doesn't work) to be exclusively offered through a single carrier.
- bayofpigs 10y agoRight, and they signed that exclusive agreement with AT&T as compensation to allow the iPhone on their network. Before this agreement, mobile phone software in the US had to be approved and provisioned through the carriers.