Apple iPhone Will Fail in a Late, Defensive Move (2007)

Re:Apple iPhone Will Fail in a Late, Defensive Move (2007) by morcheeba on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @12:55AM (#7420265)

This was one of the easiest things they could have gotten right. A phone you buy from the manufacturer instead of the carrier? That was revolutionary ... Verizon sold gimped versions of the RAZR and then charged you a monthly fee to ungimp them!

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Re:Apple iPhone Will Fail in a Late, Defensive Move (2007) by tricolon on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @01:14AM (#7420317)

That wasn't the only factor; all my Nokia phones I purchased from Nokia directly.

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Re:Apple iPhone Will Fail in a Late, Defensive Move (2007) by runn1ng on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @02:39AM (#7420499)

This.

In Europe, carrier and manufacturer were decoupled for some time before iPhone, so it was not revolutionary in that regard.

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Re:Apple iPhone Will Fail in a Late, Defensive Move (2007) by crwll on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @05:58AM (#7421032)

Were they actually generally ever coupled in Europe in the first place? In Finland they weren't.

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