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...and have Cingular pay a revenue-share of the monthly user-bill back to Apple in exchange for exclusivity. It cannot be overstated what a gamechanger it was
by rickdeckard 1y ago
...and have Cingular pay a revenue-share of the monthly user-bill back to Apple in exchange for exclusivity.
It cannot be overstated what a gamechanger it was to have a recurring revenue stream incrementing with each new user.
Beside Blackberry, no cellphone company was able to finance maintenance based on its userbase AND hardware sales, they all only worked (and mostly still work) based on hardware-sale alone.