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Verizon CEO Claims He Convinced Steve Jobs to Add LTE to iPhone
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This is central to the Apple philosophy. Make it user friendly or don't release it. In Apple's case they have an 8 hour threshold of good enough. I for one will look forward to the distant day when an Apple handtop has a 3-4 day battery life. For now I would opt for a mere 24 hours on a BTO basis. Thicker is actually better in some meaningful ways.
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What an idiot.
Also... I was streaming video on my iPhone 3GS in 2009, and I have a feeling Mr. Jobs was too. There are a few holes in this story.
Also... I was streaming video on my iPhone 3GS in 2009, and I have a feeling Mr. Jobs was too. There are a few holes in this story.
Ancient reality-distortion mid-trick. "This is the LTE phone that you thought you wanted me to make."
YES! This is exactly like the stuck-up so-and-so at a party who says, "I don't want sex" when they really mean "I don't want sex *with you*" and then later, after a couple drinks admits they want sex *ahem*. [Please pardon the graphic imagery. Mods feel free to not post this if it is deemed offensive.]
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No, that's my he's a C-level. C is an abbreviation.
Didn't he and Denny Strigl turn down the original iPhone deal with Jobs because they wanted to focus on that AWESOME VCast music system ????
Should have both been fired for that one !
Should have both been fired for that one !
Fact is that the iPhone required investment, and a single carrier with an exclusive contract was always going to benefit much more from such an investment than multiple carriers. Verizon would have gladly taken the iPhone had they been the only one, just as AT&T wouldn't have been happy with a non-exclusive contract. Obvious that whoever didn't make the iPhone deal would then talk it down.
This is not true. AT&T was the only one to initially accept the iPhone. The others rejected it. And AT&T would only take it on the exclusivity contract. Which was good cause no-one else wanted it. When the exclusivity contract was up everyone wanted it as we know cause it's a profit making phone.
Splitting hairs here, but AT&T was the only one to accept the iPhone on Apple's terms. It's not that the other carriers didn't want it, it's that they couldn't abide the restrictions (no garrish carrier logos, no carrier shovelware/crapware, music/movies could be added only via iTunes, etc.)