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iPhone Forcing Open Wireless Networks?
fermion writes "Wired asserts that the iPhone blew up the wireless industry. This article argues that because Apple demanded the opportunity to control their own phone, and ATT née Cingular agreed, other companies are opening up the networks, and Google now has the opportunity to make Android a reality. There are other tidbits. Allegedly Verizon turned Jobs down without even listening to his pitch, a decision they may well regret now that they are hemorrhaging customers. Also, that Motorola and the networks were responsible for the fiasco dubbed the ROKR, something which I believe given how damaged the American version of the RAZR was compared to international version. It also estimates that the iPhone cost upward of $150 million to design, and earns Apple about $200 profit per phone."
Its bad it wont effect verizon.
iPhone Forcing Open Wireless Networks? No.
I didn't know French was allowed in summaries.
"Verizon "hemorrhaging" customers?"
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Wishfull thinking on the part of the slashdot crew who can't believe Verizon turned down Saint Jobs and his holy relic the iPhone.
I'm sorry, I just can't believe all this apple hype going on here on slashdot, especially after I bought my first Apple product ever and it's been a huge fiasco
Apple is much worse that Microsoft regarding DRM and protecting the record industries twisted interests and the editors here are turning a blind eye to it. All the things I can't do with the nice hardware of this 160 gig iPod because of the DRM-restricted software make me sick and I just decided to sell the thing because it only irritates me.
Please kind people of slashdot, wake up to the fact that Apple is a company without ethics (as all corporations) and just because you want to be released from the Microsoft monopoly doesn't mean the Apple is the saviour!
End of rant. Please mod me down now. I'll make sure to block Apple articles from now on.
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It's a very American centric article? No shit. Slashdot is an American site.
National governments did away with the whole "international freedom" aspect of the internet the very first time one busted down the doors of an ISP to seize someone's servers. The internet is a global network that is located in individual countries. Slashdot is an American site serving up mainly American stories with readers from all over the world. If you constantly expect Slashdot to have an international focus, you'll just constantly experience disappointment.
And Ubuntu is South African just so you know.
Mac OS X and Windows XP working side by side to fight back the night.
I would hope that the fag-fucks at Verizon were promptly kicked out the door to the curb without a severance package for making such a stupid decision. No wonder Verizon has sucked for so long . . . fuck-wads like these are making important decisions. Hell, anyone else on Earth could have been more prudent.