 pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
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Mount Airy, MD | reply to spewak
Re: Duh said by spewak:Skype? Apple has shown that it can sell a multitude of devices and that that is all it cares about. Putting it's foot down? That's rich my friend.  I don't think this is the Apple you're looking for.
Apple was probably the only device manufacturer that was successful in keeping phone companies from installing bloat and other crapware on their phones. It has no problem getting providers to agree to even the most draconian of terms in exchange for allowing said provider to offer the iPhone.
With these facts in mind, why would Apple allow for AT&T to hand a competitive advantage to other devices which can run Skype and do voice chats over data (not Wifi), but which cannot do FaceTime? I'm sure Google would *love* for AT&T to allow for them to say "hey if you use voice chat with the iPhone you gotta pay more but if you do it with any Android device, you don't."
I'm still convinced that a FaceTime fee will be imposed unless it is proven otherwise... that's just how the cellular industry rolls these days.
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kudos:2 | said by pnh102:It has no problem getting providers to agree to even the most draconian of terms in exchange for allowing said provider to offer the iPhone. Did you miss out on some of the silliness that AT&T forced on the Apple customers during the first three years of exclusivity? While Apple may be able to extract big chunks of money out of the carriers for its "must have devices", it doesn't have the carriers by the throats.said by pnh102:I'm sure Google would *love* for AT&T to allow for them to say "hey if you use voice chat with the iPhone you gotta pay more but if you do it with any Android device, you don't." Just wait  |
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pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
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Mount Airy, MD | said by openbox9:Did you miss out on some of the silliness that AT&T forced on the Apple customers during the first three years of exclusivity? While Apple may be able to extract big chunks of money out of the carriers for its "must have devices", it doesn't have the carriers by the throats. I do remember, you could do things with the original iPhone on foreign cellular providers that you couldn't do with AT&T, but these were due mainly to AT&T's network sucking at the time. Also don't forget that Verizon balked at offering the iPhone initially because of these requirements.
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