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Sprint Commits to Buying $20 Billion Worth of iPhones, To Get Redesigned iPhone 5 Exclusively?

Rodimus Prime said:
Apple has the fanboy factor it can use and it knows that many people will buy and worship not matter what they put out.
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Sometimes I wonder if this forum is just ripe for trolling all the time. In almost any other forum centered around a brand/platform, that comment would've been considered a surefire telltale sign of a troll yet here it's just a "voice of reason." :(

Others have already asked this and I wonder too; what does it mean for the overseas users? Will the AT&T users now buy grey goods from overseas that'll work with the AT&T network? I'm skepical but it'll be mind boggling if this turns out to be true.
 
arn said:
Note there are 2 rumors here.

1. WSJ: Sprint committing $20 billion to Apple
2. BGR: Sprint as an iPhone 5 exclusive

They are separate sources, and honestly, of separate believability. But tied together in reasoning. Sprint is supposedly paying this $20 billion to get exclusivity.

arn
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Sorry Arn,

I respect you raising Macrumors as you have over the years, but you just took two stories from separate sources and fused them together to make your own rumor. Your rumor isn't based on any source of the two rumors being tied together. Usually a rumor will at least have a source. Yours doesn't, its just a frankenstein of two possibly legit rumors.

Headline is misleading and its this type of "pulling the wool over the eyes" that the consumer is really tired of. Just an FYI and i hope you liked the halloween reference.:cool:


Edit: Wow 20 Pages on this BS? Well, it looks like what you did payed off. With payoffs like 20 pages worth of user activity, it has to be hard to re$i$t.
 
Perhaps the "exclusive" part is not that Sprint is getting the iPhone 5 exclusively but that Sprint will exclusively get a WiMax version of the iPhone 5. In other word, everyone else will get an iPhone 5 with 3G or 3.5G or whatever G and Sprint will get an iPhone 5 with WiMax 4G. :confused:

MacRumors said:
In the wake of the new report on Sprint's massive iPhone commitment, BGR reports that this development may lend weight to claim they had heard that had previously seemed outrageous - that the iPhone 5 does indeed exist and that it will launch as a 4G WiMAX as a Sprint exclusive.
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rjflyn said:
My take is thats about all the customers Sprint actually has. They way they have been bleeding them, me and my family included.. crappy ass phones over the years all all. That said, 30 million iPhones equals about one free phone for each Sprint customer to keep them from leaving.
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Sprint has actually had some of the best Android phones in the past few years (and in many cases best version of phones available on other carriers). Only phone missing was the iPhone.
 
Talk about slapping AT&T and all the loyal first adopters in the face. This would be outrageous....
 
I would never switch from T to Sprint. For any device period. End of story. If Apple can sell every phone they make on one carrier (like the did with T), why do an exclusive with another carrier? It's too risky. You frustrate your existing customers and partners, and if Sprint goes under for it, they file for br and A has nothing to show for it but a bunch of po'd customers and partners. Seems like a boneheaded move to me. If they do it, I'm selling my stock fast.
 
aohus said:
Someone answer this. please.

Why would the iPhone 5, rumored to be a HSPA+ device, come to Sprint, when Sprint uses WiMax?

Shouldn't the iPhone 5 be coming to T-Mobile then?
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The iPhone having HSPA+ has nothing to do with T-Mobile not getting the iPhone. I don't know the reasoning but it could be that Apple didn't want to give it to them until the AT&T thing is settled one way or the other.
 
I really hope this is not true, but it seems legit.

This really sucks if you are a Verizon or AT&T customer.:mad:

It's greed at its finest.

The only way I see this to fail is that all those Verizon and AT&T customers (me) upgrade to iPhone 4S and not to the iPhone 5. Also, new customers continue to buy Verizon and AT&T iPhone 4S. If this happens, Sprint will have to give away the iPhone 5 to clear the shelves.:D

No wonder Verizon recently sided with Samsung regarding the patent battle. I thought this not a good time to fight Apple, when you're about to get a phone from them that is going to be your 1 seller.:rolleyes:
 
The Beatles said:
Sorry Arn,

I respect you raising Macrumors as you have over the years, but you just took two stories from separate sources and fused them together to make your own rumor. Your rumor isn't based on any source of the two rumors being tied together. Usually a rumor will at least have a source. Yours doesn't, its just a frankenstein of two possibly legit rumors.
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No, he didn't. He reported BGR's story where they did that. The skepticism surrounding this is even right there in the story.
 
I'm still on the 3gs I have from when it launched and if Sprint gets iPhone 5 a few months before the others, I'd have no problem switching from AT&T to Sprint to get it.
 
Don't care to read through 26 pages, so don't know if this has been posted yet. What if (and I am getting down voted here I'm sure), just imagine this, what if the redesigned "iPhone 5" is actually the new Sprint iPhone 4S.

The slimmer teardrop shape with the internals of the iPhone 4, shrunk to fit. A4 processor, 5 MP camera on front facing VGA camera, bigger lower PPI screen, same 960x640 resolution (4", 280 or so PPI) all packaged up and called the iPhone 4S, with the S meaning Sprint.

The iPhone 5 is the iPhone 4 look-alike with A5 processor, 8 MP camera, voice assistant thingie, more RAM, more storage, better than ever battery and the same IPS 3.5" screen we all love.

Now that my friends would be a hoot. :p All this time, the "redesigned" iPhone was the low-cost option and Sprint is getting an exclusive on it. I'm saving this to quote myself tomorrow if this comes true.
 
Kentochan said:
I will be shocked if Sprint is given exclusivity to the iPhone 5 :eek:
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im shocked that such an asinine rumor was even posted here. oh ok so apple is just going to cut their potential channels and go with one? and does sprint even have $20 billion, last i heard they had $4Billion. give me a break, there isn't any quality control on what is said or resaid on the internet. too bad.
 
r.j.s said:
What about the rumored box label and iTunes string?

And, what is the difference between the rumored 4S and your version of the 5?
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Rumors are rumors.. nothing more. We'll see tomorrow. Verizon and AT&T will get an iPhone 5. It may or may not look like what everyone expects, but it'll be called the iPhone 5.

Maybe they'll release a 4S to replace the current low end 3GS. The S in 4S will stand for simplified... a simplified version of the iPhone 4.. the N90A.
 
The Beatles said:
im shocked that such an asinine rumor was even posted here. oh ok so apple is just going to cut their potential channels and go with one? and does sprint even have $20 billion, last i heard they had $4Billion. give me a break, there isn't any quality control on what is said or resaid on the internet. too bad.
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Who said anything about cutting potential channels?

Here is what makes the most sense:
  1. Apple releases iPhone 5 on Sprint with WiMax
  2. Apple releases iPhone 4S on AT&T and Verizon
  3. In a few months, (when the LTE chips are available) Apple releases iPhone 5 on AT&T and Verizon
  4. Millions buy on Sprint, AT&T and Verizon
  5. PROFIT!!!

How is anyone cut out?
 
I think a lot of the 'I'm a loyal customer' whining is a bit naive.

Apple' sole goal is selling as many phones as they possibly can. They got your money and know they'll get it again. For all thewhining , they KNOW you will buy another iPhone whether it's with AT&T or Verizon..even if you have to wait Heck, the overwhelming majority of iPhone 4 users are still locked into their original 2-year contract. And while the first adopters here are more than happy to jump through the hoops of selling their device and paying an EFT to get the latest and greatest, most IP4 users will be fine waiting to next summer an upgrading with the same carrier.
 
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