10-23-2009, 07:32 PM
deckeda wrote:
Regarding Apple not making compatible phones for other networks, that engineering challenge has to be the easiest of all hurdles to overcome. The evidence from other makers on this score is everywhere.
Apple is not going to make separate handsets for each carrier. Then we would be stuck in the same crappy place as every other consumer with their carrier specific phones. Apple does not want to bend over backwards a make one handset per carrier like Nokia and RIM have to do. Otherwise, bye bye profit margin, hello carriers asserting control over building crappy handsets again.