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Can someone explain this?

Slammer

Aug 20, 2010, 5:46 AM
Apple is not a carrier. They are a phone manufacturer. So my question is: "If" the iPhone is going to another carrier, why should Apple require or even care that ATT hold a two year contract for their product or not?
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GeeksAreBest

Aug 20, 2010, 8:59 AM
You answered your own question there. IF the phone is going to a new carrier...
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Slammer

Aug 20, 2010, 10:00 AM
This makes perfect sense and the point I was trying to convey. All these rumors going around of a CDMA version going to another carrier can indeed be true especially for overseas carriers utilizing CDMA. But to have claim of Verizon or Sprint getting it, would seem to desolve this theory if Apple tags a mandatory 2 year contract to its only US carrier. There would be no need for it if offered on other US carriers.

Thanks!
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GeeksAreBest

Aug 20, 2010, 10:46 AM
The thing is...if ANYTHING...Apple should be looking into a LTE iPhone. If everyone switches to LTE as planned and it becomes the big, global stardard everyone is hoping for, all they would need to do is make *one* global phone and they'd be able to manuf. and sell worldwide which would make a ridiculous amount of sense.
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fahrende

Aug 20, 2010, 11:57 AM
I would disagree with that. LTE is at least still 4 years off before it becomes ubiquitous. In the early stages, there is a HUGE integration effort and not to mention that there are multiple standards that have to be supported on a single chipset now. Imagine having to support GSM, EDGE, UMTS, BT, WiFi, and several other standards on a single chipset.

LTE is important, but it's still a ways off. Honestly, I can't imagine Apple being able to effectively tackle this multiple standards issue as they aren't very good at that stuff anyways. They're better off waiting for everyone else to solve the problem first.
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GeeksAreBest

Aug 20, 2010, 1:58 PM
Eh, date range for it is about 2 years till the start of integration. I feel sorry for AT&T compared to some of the other networks. Courtesy of the iphone and users...They've dumped like 35 billion into the network over the last few years, that's going to be obsolete in another few years.

Granted, if the iphone hadn't been exclusive, they'd have had a heavy network without resources to get it afloat again.
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