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Details and Rumors of iPhone Restrictions Emerging

Posted by kdawson on from the still-don't-know-how-much-a-month dept.

We're getting indications of the ways the iPhone will be sold (or not sold) and restricted by Apple and AT&T. Reader thefickler writes, "An anonymous AT&T store manager has told blorge.com that users will get their WiFi when they sign a contract locking them into a data plan and EDGE. Kiss your dreams of WiFi reliance goodbye." And our own CmdrTaco found an article up on AppleInsider reporting that the iPhone will not be sold through established business channels — forcing Cingular business customers to stand in line for their goodies, as individuals, at Apple stores. An AT&T Business Division rep told one customer, "There is no ETA on the [ending of the] sale ban to business."

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  1. Re:uh oh... by Lord+Apathy · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    This is great fucking news. As apple/at&t blow their own balls off with this overpriced toy it will just lead to better and cheaper knock offs. Just like when they hocked up the ipod for 400 bucks for a 20 gb drive. I bough a creative nomad with twice the space at half the cost. While ipod owners where stuck with buying a new ipod for more space I swapped out a 100 Gb drive in mine with a extra poweful 3rd party battery.

    The blowPhone will just be the same. Apple will lock it to at&t. Nokia, samsung, or one of the others will come out with a better one, for half the cost that will not be locked into some network.

    Phuck apple....

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  2. Unfortunately, you and I are wrong by StarKruzr · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I see it as an at-long-last replacement for the old Newton, with a phone in it.

    This is precisely the same thing that I and millions of other Mac fans said when we heard of it. I mean, how could Apple pass up the opportunity to produce the first viable *NIX handheld that included telephony and all of Apple's great media software? The possibilities were endless, given the already extant, enormous library of Mac and GNU software out there. Then we heard about MultiTouch and the fact that it "has Cocoa," and everyone was thrilled.

    Then the SDK news, and now this complete garbage about WiFi being disabled (not to mention needing to sign a new contract in order to even get one in the first place)?

    Fuck you too, Steve.

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