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January 18, 2007
For the last time (Please G-d) the iPhone
I am annoyed at Steve Smith and Jeff for having me waste the time to got to Steve's Blah Blah Blah iPhone piece. Shame on me.
The Wall Street Journal today reflected the controversy over the iPhone, but I am not sure they did it justice.
It's actually real simple. The real world contains 6.5 Billion people of which a small percentage 300 Million (in the US) will be able to buy 10 Million iPhones from att.
Its a controlled launch of a product in a market where 3GPP and GSM are still waiting to be implemented.
Dear Mr. Jobs, if you want to come and play in telecom we are excited to have you here. But how about building for the world's open standards and working backwards to the US rather than the other way around. Better yet ignore everything but GPRS and let the industry treat the iPhone as a Mac Mini for the hip.
I think the most logical discussion on Apples iphone is here in Business 2.0's blog.
So here is a question. If Apple wants to no longer be about computers are those assets up for sale?
Posted by carl at January 18, 2007 08:25 AM