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Can Apple Find a European iPhone Partner?

Posted by kdawson on from the step-away-from-the-deal dept.

pete314 writes "A Vnunet.com article claims that European mobile operators are unwilling to concede to Apple iPhone partnership demands. Several operators went as far as to say they 'will never offer the iPhone.' In the US, Verizon reportedly passed on the device, and AT&T is rumored to have engaged in a revenue-sharing deal that includes monthly payments to Cupertino." In Europe, unlike in the US, Apple has the option of selling the iPhone through its own dealer network without a simlock.

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  1. Re:Answer: yes by Ajehals · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In the meantime, the customers who aren't impacted by the lack of 3G can still purchase it; others certainly don't need to.

    That sentence starts with a capital letter.
    Impacted is just as valid as affected, neither is exclusively language used by marketing.

    If the GP had said something along the lines of;
    "For the immediate future, the demographic who do not require the enabling benefits of third generation technologies will benefit from this product, those outside of this demographic will have their expectations met further down the feature road map...;
    you may have had a point. Sadly your contribution appears to have been less than accurate and rather unhelpful.