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Apple has already pissed off every telco there is by refusing to let them put their branding on the iPhone. Don't pretend these people are playing nice. Telcos

Apple has already pissed off every telco there is by refusing to let them put their branding on the iPhone. Don't pretend these people are playing nice. Telcos hate Apple, and Apple doesn't care. You either get to sell the iPhone or you don't. And the DOJ doesn't give a rat's ass about any company with ~20% of the market. Unless it's e-books and Apple involved. In which case they do.

MBCook 9y ago
Apple does not have friends in the government thanks to the whole thing a year or two ago about unlocking an iPhone. The DOJ’s current thoughts on antitrust seem to be “anything that might lower prices is good“. Apple certainly didn’t have a big chunk of the e-book market but it still got in trouble anyway. The phone companies HAVE to put up with Apple because the phones sell too well. They tried hardball years ago and it didn’t work. Then they tried promoting competitors and it didn’t work. I think android being big was a foregone conclusion, but the promotion of things like the Droid didn’t push Apple to a marginal player like they wanted. Frankly I think the current administration would be happy to put up a fight against Apple just put up a fight against Apple. I don’t think they should be allowed to become a phone company anyway, although I’m sure that wouldn’t be the real reason for the suit. Realistically I think the shareholders would slaughter them due to the risk that the cash cow that is the iPhone would be injured in any way.
- ianamartin 9y ago
  I'm not sure how anything you've said disagrees with anything I've said.
gigatexal 9y ago
Good. Let them piss the telco's off. Nobody wants branded shit on their phone. it's one of the reasons their laptops are so nice -- great build quality (even still, keyboard aside) and no damn stickers or crap software pre-installed.

MBCook 9y ago

Apple does not have friends in the government thanks to the whole thing a year or two ago about unlocking an iPhone. The DOJ’s current thoughts on antitrust seem to be “anything that might lower prices is good“. Apple certainly didn’t have a big chunk of the e-book market but it still got in trouble anyway. The phone companies HAVE to put up with Apple because the phones sell too well. They tried hardball years ago and it didn’t work. Then they tried promoting competitors and it didn’t work. I think android being big was a foregone conclusion, but the promotion of things like the Droid didn’t push Apple to a marginal player like they wanted. Frankly I think the current administration would be happy to put up a fight against Apple just put up a fight against Apple. I don’t think they should be allowed to become a phone company anyway, although I’m sure that wouldn’t be the real reason for the suit. Realistically I think the shareholders would slaughter them due to the risk that the cash cow that is the iPhone would be injured in any way.

ianamartin 9y ago
I'm not sure how anything you've said disagrees with anything I've said.

gigatexal 9y ago

Good. Let them piss the telco's off. Nobody wants branded shit on their phone. it's one of the reasons their laptops are so nice -- great build quality (even still, keyboard aside) and no damn stickers or crap software pre-installed.