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Re:iPhone Sales Drop, and Apple’s 13-Year Surge Ebbs by brianwawok on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @08:45PM (#11577018)
T-Mobile changed so others had to to keep up. Basically most cell phone contract innovation in the last 5 years has been through T-Mobile.
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Re:iPhone Sales Drop, and Apple’s 13-Year Surge Ebbs by s3bast0m on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @05:18AM (#11578849)
You do realize that US and T-Mobile was one of the last holdouts with this "bundled"system and in Europe we had this "new" system in place for at least 5 years.
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Re:iPhone Sales Drop, and Apple’s 13-Year Surge Ebbs by brianwawok on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @01:24PM (#11582468)
I don't think it matters to a US consumer what Europe did first.

US had a crappy system. TMobile innovated. Even if that innovation was to copy a system from another country, to our market it was an innovation.

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Re:iPhone Sales Drop, and Apple’s 13-Year Surge Ebbs by Drakim on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @06:52AM (#11579280)
"Innovation" isn't the word I would use here, it was simply that the US caught up to the rest of the western world.
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Re:iPhone Sales Drop, and Apple’s 13-Year Surge Ebbs by brianwawok on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @01:24PM (#11582477)
Why not? Before T-Mobile did this, could an American sign up for say a French phone plan and use it from their house in Flordia?

I could update my statement to say

"Most innovation in the AMERICAN cell phone market has been through T-Mobile"

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