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Seems improbable, but I really wish Apple would get into the carrier business.
by uptown 8y ago
Seems improbable, but I really wish Apple would get into the carrier business.
- yosito 8y agoIIRC, Apple has the cash but I doubt they'd be any better in terms of protecting consumer data.
- duskwuff 8y agoTo avoid this sort of information leak, they'd have to build out their own cell infrastructure. This would be prohibitively expensive, even for a company with as much money as Apple. Operating as a MVNO wouldn't help; the parent carrier can still collect data from their customers.
- jonas21 8y agoI dunno... Apple could, for example, buy T-Mobile and their network for ~$50B [1] and still have a $230B pile of cash left over [2]. [1] https://www.google.com/search?q=TMUS https://www.google.com/search?q=TMUS [2] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/01/apple-earnings-q1-2018-how-much-money-does-apple-have.html https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/01/apple-earnings-q1-2018-how-m...
- confounded 8y agoDoes anyone with telco experience know if MVNO's can set their own policies in this regard? It seems like there's room in the market. (Ask HN about this yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17088252 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17088252)
- saagarjha 8y agoI think they've mentioned before that they're not interested in entering this space.