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The article is kinda paradoxal... > the iphone changed the game > no device can enter the market without carrier help. The iphone was successful exactly beca
by gcb0 13y ago
The article is kinda paradoxal...
> the iphone changed the game
> no device can enter the market without carrier help.
The iphone was successful exactly because it sold to rich people before, with no carrier help. in fact, in the beginning the carriers would throw anything at you to move you from an iphone. In fact, the reason you have to pay a "smarphone fee" until recently was because AT&T greedily charged a mandatory $30 extra for "iphone data" if you ever wanted a subsided iphone.
- paulftw 13y agoiphone started without carrier support, maybe. (There was some sort of an at&t deal, i dunno, doesn't matter) But the point is that was then, we now live in a different world. Apple gave invented the smartphone market as we know it. Nowadays market is mature - it's nearly impossible to disrupt it.
- gcb0 13y agoapple is for a long time ridding the frivolous upgrade market. I bet if it wasn't so easy to sell your phone on the grey market (for it to be consumed on the grey market overseas) nobody would be justifying upgrading to the latest number or "s" every year. That is a fragile market as the market nokia had before. which everyone assumes to be "nearly impossible to disrupt" as you put it.