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Yeah, just how laptops now sell better than desktops.
So Apple stopped making iMacs and Mac minis. After all, why bother?
It's exactly like that.
No, you don't have both in one phone. You can sell 2 versions of the phone: 1 for each network.
Their rollout of LTE (4G) won't be happening for a long while, even though they've announced it. Definitely nothing for Verizon at MWSF, in the short and long term future. For the US, you're with ATT, or have an original iPhone unlocked/jailbroken to use with T-Mobile, or nothing at all.
There are MANY threads on this in this entire forum. The search button up there is your friend.
BL.
Imagine if people were to stop making threads about things that will never happen, not because the idea in question is bad, but because it would be idiotic to go through with it.
They. Had. Their. Shot. Now I'm stuck with an iPhone that I can't use and a craptacular piece of flip (phone) that I'm forced to use.
My switch to Centennial can't come soon enough.
Yes, I know AT&T bought them. I'm getting a cheapo contract with them now so that I don't have to spend $60 a month with AT&T, who has no service whatsoever where I live.
It's not the same GSM. When Verizon switches technologies, the iPhone of today and yesterday WILL NOT WORK at all. LTE is completely different from either CDMA and the "current" GSM. Transition phones will have to have either a CDMA/LTE setup or a GSM/LTE setup.
Nope.
They. Had. Their. Shot. Now I'm stuck with an iPhone that I can't use and a craptacular piece of flip (phone) that I'm forced to use.
My switch to Centennial can't come soon enough.
Yes, I know AT&T bought them. I'm getting a cheapo contract with them now so that I don't have to spend $60 a month with AT&T, who has no service whatsoever where I live.
It's not the same GSM. When Verizon switches technologies, the iPhone of today and yesterday WILL NOT WORK at all. LTE is completely different from either CDMA and the "current" GSM. Transition phones will have to have either a CDMA/LTE setup or a GSM/LTE setup.
Nope.
Two rival companies are never going to sell the same phone A) because the phone providers are entitled to sell certain phones for certain carriers (I.E Apple iPhone, and iPhone 3G would only be sold at ATT stores.) and B) because ATT wants to benefit from the phone (People from various carriers switching to ATT primarily for it)
Ok... kinda sorry I started this... did learn a few things though... lets call it a day. Anybody up for a beer?
Why is everyone so bent up of this? Apple is making phones. It's in their best interest to produce a phone that can reach as many consumers as possilble. Producing for only select carriers is not how this is done.
There is no reason at all that Apple tie themselves down to one carrier per area. Here in America, they absolutely should provide a CDMA version for verizon and sprint as will as releasing the current version on tmobile in the future.
A phone can easily exist on multiple carriers. RIM didn't get their huge market share in America because they only chose 1 carrier. The curve and pearl are available on every carrier.
There is no reason at all that Apple tie themselves down to one carrier per area. Here in America, they absolutely should provide a CDMA version for verizon and sprint as will as releasing the current version on tmobile in the future.
A phone can easily exist on multiple carriers. RIM didn't get their huge market share in America because they only chose 1 carrier. The curve and pearl are available on every carrier.
It's actually the other way around in the US, though. When the mobile phone wars were huge in the late 90s, it was actually the Sprints, Verizons, and a few others that were telling the phone manufacturers that they could only make phones for their network and their network ONLY, otherwise they will never sell that manufacturer's phones for that network. That's what led Nokia to stop making phones for Sprint. They (the manufacturers) weren't trying to tie the phones to a single network; the carrier was. With GSM, they aren't bound by that.
Apple took the iPhone to Verizon, Sprint, TMobile, then ATT. The first three said no. As mentioned before, they had their shot, and passed on it. ATT said yes. So, ATT has the deal on the iPhone. People complain up and down the flagpole about why the iPhone isn't on any other carrier, but fail to realize that those other carriers were given first choice and blew it. No-one to blame but those carriers.
BL.
I understand that Apple went to them first, but that was before, with Apple's crazy demands of revenue sharing.
Now that it's a standard subsidized phone, you'd think Apple would renew discussions about getting their phone to those carriers.
actually if we want to get picky, Apple went to Cingular...which was soon after bought by at&t.