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BlackBerry's hang up was they couldn't figure out how Apple was able to power such a device and how could they be allowed to use so much bandwidth by AT&T when
by protomyth 5y ago
BlackBerry's hang up was they couldn't figure out how Apple was able to power such a device and how could they be allowed to use so much bandwidth by AT&T when that was a such a point of contention.
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250096067/losingthesignal https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250096067/losingthesignal
- wodenokoto 5y ago“So much bandwidth”? It was an edge device in a 3g world. It relied on Wi-Fi for location service when high end phones had used 3g towers and gps for years. In so many ways the iPhone was a poor high end phone on paper.
- wmf 5y agoOTOH the iPhone accessed the real HTTP Web not WAP and it didn't use a split browser architecture. For comparison, the Danger Hiptop/T-Mobile Sidekick was only allowed to have an unlimited data plan because all traffic from the phone went through proxy servers that compressed everything. AFAIK Blackberries also routed everything through a BES/BIS proxy.