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In contrast to the always fair and balanced Michael Arrington, you mean? In most countries where the iPhone is sold, Apple already has contracts with multiple
by Samuel_Michon 16y ago
In contrast to the always fair and balanced Michael Arrington, you mean?
In most countries where the iPhone is sold, Apple already has contracts with multiple carriers. Ofcourse, in most countries all carriers use GSM. Until LTE is widespread in the US, Apple's only choice to offer iPhones on other networks is to make one that has a CDMA radio. They may do so, or they could wait it out for a year or two.
- wyclif 16y agoExcept I wasn't talking about other countries, I was talking about the U.S. Nothing you say here invalidates my point. "They may do so" you say. That was my point. We're still waiting for Apple to do something on another carrier. In the U.S.
- Samuel_Michon 16y agoI didn't set out to invalidate your post, just to offer an explanation as to why, in the US, the iPhone isn't offered on any other network but AT&T, and what would need to happen for that to change. It sounded as if you're not convinced that the iPhone will ever be available on any network other than AT&T. Given that Verizon is by far the largest carrier in the US, I can't imagine Apple not wanting a piece of that action. But fact remains, Verizon is still on CDMA, and that tech has had its best days. As Steve Jobs said at D8: "Apple is a company that has succeeded by choosing which horses to ride technically, that have a future, that are headed up. Different pieces of technology kind of go in cycles. They have their springs and summers and autumns and then go to their graveyard of technology. We try to pick things that are in their springs." http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2010/06/01/d8-steve-jobs-live/ http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2010/06/01/d8-steve...
- Tamerlin 16y agoAt least Apple is consistent about choosing bad horses, eh? (G4, G5, AT&T)...