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This was one of the easiest things they could have gotten right. A phone you buy from the manufacturer instead of the carrier? That was revolutionary ... Verizo

This was one of the easiest things they could have gotten right. A phone you buy from the manufacturer instead of the carrier? That was revolutionary ... Verizon sold gimped versions of the RAZR and then charged you a monthly fee to ungimp them!

tricolon 13y ago
That wasn't the only factor; all my Nokia phones I purchased from Nokia directly.
- runn1ng 13y ago
  This. In Europe, carrier and manufacturer were decoupled for some time before iPhone, so it was not revolutionary in that regard.
  - crwll 13y ago
    Were they actually generally ever coupled in Europe in the first place? In Finland they weren't.