iPhone 3G[s]

Garp · 29-09-2009, 18:32

Competition is always good. It's been clear for a while that Apple needs to drop it's exclusivity with various networks. They've had the chance to settle and prove the iPhone, establish it as more than just a flash-in-the-pan and exclusivity has been a big barrier to further market growth. I can't see any real benefit to Apple in staying exclusive any more. It only serves to restrict their potential market.

Hopefully this move in the UK will be a precursor to them making the same change here. AT&T's network and customer service have a very bad reputation, and a lot of people are seriously frustrated with the number of dropped calls, calls that never arrive (even when in strong signal), text messages that take several hours to arrive and so on. About a month ago AT&T had an outage on their visual voicemail service for a few days in the San Francisco bay area, which they didn't bother telling people about. First people found out was when the service suddenly came back on and they found lots of voicemails waiting.
I would suspect if AT&T loses the exclusivity they will find their subscribers leaving in droves.

29-09-2009, 18:32	#11
Garp Preparing more tumbleweed Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Hawaii Posts: 6,038	Competition is always good. It's been clear for a while that Apple needs to drop it's exclusivity with various networks. They've had the chance to settle and prove the iPhone, establish it as more than just a flash-in-the-pan and exclusivity has been a big barrier to further market growth. I can't see any real benefit to Apple in staying exclusive any more. It only serves to restrict their potential market. Hopefully this move in the UK will be a precursor to them making the same change here. AT&T's network and customer service have a very bad reputation, and a lot of people are seriously frustrated with the number of dropped calls, calls that never arrive (even when in strong signal), text messages that take several hours to arrive and so on. About a month ago AT&T had an outage on their visual voicemail service for a few days in the San Francisco bay area, which they didn't bother telling people about. First people found out was when the service suddenly came back on and they found lots of voicemails waiting. I would suspect if AT&T loses the exclusivity they will find their subscribers leaving in droves. __________________ Mal: Define "interesting"? Wash: "Oh, God, oh, God, we're all gonna die"?