On this WWDC day

[Tony Scharf]

What I find absolutely hillarious is that this thread could have been
predicted with high accuracy.  Apple has all the fanboys marching in
lock step with their marketting plan, as always, no matter what the
skeptics have to say.

I'd like to say its been an iteresting and lively discussion.  It hasn't.

Tony



On 6/10/08, Andrew Robinson <andrew at bml.co.uk> wrote:
> 2008/6/10 Peter Korsten <peter at severity-one.com>:
>> Andy Tarpinian schreef:
>>> and what is so impressive about say the E61i over the iPhone? I'm
>> The keyboard. It's full QWERTY.
>
> so is the iphone's... and I'm willing to bet the autocorrection is
> streets ahead on the iphone.
>
>> My E61i was definitely more expensive than the iPhone 2 is...
>
> hard to compare like with like, given the differing contracts, but the
> E61i looks to be the same price here as the original iphone, and
> that's with a limited download not the unlimited iphone package.
>
>> ... the
>> typical smartphone corporate customer just goes to the mobile operator
>> that gives him the best deal, whether that includes Apple or Nokia or
>> RIM or whatever.
>
> Well, I don't know if this is true outside the UK, but the only
> operator that gives unlimited data is the one selling the iphone,
> therefore the one with the best deal is the one that has them.
>
>> I think that Apple still doesn't understand the mobile market, and
>> definitely not the mobile market in Europe.
>
> I couldn't disagree more, Apple know exactly what they are doing, and
> they cleverly leveraged the iphone exclusivity deals to force the
> operators to play ball.
>
> - Andy_R
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