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Apple should buy T-Mobile USA

If Apple had its own carrier would you leave your current provider?

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wayneholbrook

wayneholbrook

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Mar 30, 2010
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T-mobile USA just lost 802,000 customers is the 4th quarter last year. I know in the beginning stages of the 1st generation iPhone that Steve Jobs flirted with Apple having its own phone carrier here in the US. Is it just me or maybe this is perfect timing for Apple to purchase T-Mobile USA and have its own carrier with only one device for a smartphone and of curse the iPad. I think that would be brilliant!

They could still have the iPhone available through Verizon, AT&T and Sprint but to have its own GSM carrier would be fantastic.
 
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I thought Steve wanted his own telecommunications providers, but only for data? I thought he was hoping to release a device that only used voip for phone calls..

If it were cheaper and used voip, maybe. But I don't think that was what the poll was about, so I say no (assuming I was in USA). There seems to be little point.
 
wayneholbrook said:
T-mobile USA just lost 802,000 customers is the 4th quarter last year. I know in the beginning stages of the 1st generation iPhone that Steve Jobs flirted with Apple having its own phone carrier here in the US. Is it just me or maybe this is perfect timing for Apple to purchase T-Mobile USA and have its own carrier with only one device for a smartphone and of curse the iPad. I think that would be brilliant!

They could still have the iPhone available through Verizon, AT&T and Sprint but to have its own GSM carrier would be fantastic.
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Yeah and if that happened what would happen to all the Androids on T-Mobile? Ya can't have a cellular company that would offer only one phone - which is exactly what Apple would do.
 
I think Apple should stick to the industries that it knows best (hardware engineering and software development) and leave the rest to the others.
 
Imagine that your favourite corn chip manufacturer also owned the number one diarrhea medication.

That'd be great cuz then they could put a little sample of the medication in each bag.

Keep thinking.

Except then they might be tempted to make the corn chips GIVE you...

Vertical integration.

There's a reason carriers can't manufacture phones, read up on it.
 
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It will never happen. Apple likes the fact that they can blame the carries for things and the carriers can blame Apple also. It's like Comcast making their own cable boxes, it will never happen. Comcast loves to blame issues on the box and Motorola (or Pace, or whoever).
 
Zwhaler said:
I think Apple should stick to the industries that it knows best (hardware engineering and software development) and leave the rest to the others.
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+1
The fact that you are good at something does not mean you will be successful when jumping to a new market. HP, RIM and a bunch of losers try to jump to tablet business and fail BIG. Apple may will be in the same boat if they purchase T-mobile. Also it will definitely hurt the relationships with other carriers.
 
dukebound85 said:
Just like apple should have stayed out of the phone and music biz 10 years ago?
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No, because Apple's success in those industries today is because they stuck with exactly what I said, hardware engineering and software development :confused: :)
 
Zwhaler said:
No, because Apple's success in those industries today is because they stuck with exactly what I said, hardware engineering and software development :confused: :)
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Before their foray into music and phones, they only largely dealt in personal computing. That same logic could be said that they should have stuck with what they know, computers. What makes your statement any more correct?
 
dukebound85 said:
Before their foray into music and phones, they only largely dealt in personal computing. That same logic could be said that they should have stuck with what they know, computers. What makes your statement any more correct?
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Apple applied their expertise of hardware engineering and software development to the music and phone industries, which led to their success. The core unchanging element here is innovation in the two categories of hardware and software, we can see this as far back as the Apple II.
 
Primejimbo said:
It will never happen. Apple likes the fact that they can blame the carries for things and the carriers can blame Apple also. It's like Comcast making their own cable boxes, it will never happen. Comcast loves to blame issues on the box and Motorola (or Pace, or whoever).
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Quite.

There are so many issues that carriers have to deal with that are hard to resolve.

If an area has poor coverage and the carrier can't get planning approval or there simply isn't enough spectrum to improve things, their reputation gets dragged down - Apple wouldn't want to put up with that sort of thing.
 
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