Apple Delivers iPhone
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Also keep in mind that the best selling iPods are not the 30 & 80 gig models but the nanos & shuffles. Not everyone wants or needs to take that much music with them, and the small ones are quite popular.
What would be the point of setting up 3G data when it already has wifi? If they were going to implement downloading to the dev...
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One thing I hadn't considered was this...
How much did Cingular pay to get this agreement? I'm guessing it must have outweighed their profit estimates were they to offer the device on other carriers (specifically T-Mobile). What do you think?
nikg said: Steve Jobs wants to take 1% of the US market share. This equates to 10 million handsets.
10 million Handsets? Cingular only has about 60 million customers, do they really think 1/6 of Cingular's customer base is going to buy this phone? That's expecting too much
Granted, you'll have a handful of tech people that really want the better connection speeds and such, and (as is clear by the posts in this forum) a lot of extraordinarily biased fanboys that are going to cry about the phone not being on Verizon, but the masses won't care about these things.
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...but trying to reach this goal by only offering your product on one carrier is ignorant.
It's not one product. iPhone is a line of products, just like iPod. Cingular will offer multiple iPhone models over the next several years.
... unless of course, you pull your head out of your Apple and offer this across CDMA/evdo platforms.
Not gonna happen. I asked the question in Cingular's iPhone press conference, and Cingular made it very clear that their multi-year US exclusivity covers all models and all radio technologies. There will be no CDMA iPhone in the US for at least two years.
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