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Wasn't that the reason the iphone was only released on AT&T at first? The "smart phones" before iphones were riddled with adware and other carrier installed gar
by shiftpgdn 4y ago
Wasn't that the reason the iphone was only released on AT&T at first? The "smart phones" before iphones were riddled with adware and other carrier installed garbage.
- joshstrange 4y agoWhich, at the time, was nothing short of a miracle (no carrier installed garbage). If carriers could go back in time I'd bet they'd do everything in their power to collectively reject that deal because they gave up a ton of power.
- MBCook 4y agoYep. AT&T (really Cingular) was desperate and needed a hit product to grow. They made a deal with the devil (from their perspective) to give up control in hopes of getting sales & users. The successful carriers like Verizon told Apple no due to Apple’s demands. If they knew how big it would be they may have agreed but that was unknowable. Still it was the end of the absolute lockdown carriers had on smartphone software.