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Phones are always about the carrier. Apple understood that when they started off with AT&T. Then, they showed people what a well executed smartphone can look li
by teyc 15y ago
Phones are always about the carrier. Apple understood that when they started off with AT&T. Then, they showed people what a well executed smartphone can look like.
Android also looked after the carriers, as the author had pointed out, by flooding market with choices. The presence of these "choices" overload the consumer, making them forget about choosing carriers.
Microsoft, meanwhile, tried to persuade people that the phones they own are like the PCs they own. I don't think this will necessarily gel. The reason is I still can use my PC when internet is down, but my phone is a brick if it can't communicate with the network.
- gnaffle 15y agoApple was the first company that was able to make a phone without bending over backwards to the operators demands. They could do this because they 1) had a great product 2) had no existing mobile revenue stream to lose 3) was able to shop the device around to several carriers before settling on one launch carrier - without even showing the device to the carrier! Compare this to Nokia, which once made a E61 version without WiFi and VoIP support in order to sell it to carriers in the US. Android looked after the carriers by allowing them and the manufacturers to install (almost) what they want on the device, including applications that you can't uninstall without jailbreaking the device. By the way, my phone is certainly not a brick without a network. I have all my music, videos, ebooks and lots of apps on it. I use it all the time in airplane mode when flying.