Sorry, no cartoon today. And I guess I'm a little late with my rant.
But it bugs me, that Apple ensures an iPhone monopoly in every nation by letting just one provider sell it.
And the provider can charge ridiculous prices for the plans.
E.g. here in Germany you can normally get every phone with every provider. That ensures competition.
But not with the iPhone. You have to buy it with the T-Mobile plan, which charges you at least 49 Euro for unlimited data. And T-Mobile cripples the bandwith to 64kBit download / 16kBit upload after 300MB of downloaded data . Why do I need 3G when it's crippled to ISDN pace?
Thank you Apple for bringing us the monopoly back!
(I have to confess: The iPhone is great and I want one too.)
Australians have a choice of three carriers. All the plans are still s**t but at least we can choose which s**t we roll in.
And boy don't we love it!
Posted by: joshnunn | July 27, 2008 at 02:00 PM
and in switzerland you pay 39 euro for the plan we have to pay 89 euro for in germany. both times t-mobile is the carrier ... this is madness......
Posted by: Jens | July 27, 2008 at 02:37 PM
Same here in Italy. Two carriers (with a third coming, I hear), s**tty plans, ludicrous prices, the whole enchillada. Way to go Apple!
Posted by: andrew | July 28, 2008 at 12:42 AM
Sorry, @joshnunn, in switzerland there are two different providers: swisscom and orange. they both sell the iphone at a much better rate then in germany
Posted by: Malte | July 28, 2008 at 07:23 AM
Ahhh, you discovered the significance of the one and only one bite out of the Beatles Logo, i.e. first bite and already the wormhole and, God forbide, half the worm was revealed, hee hee. Five percent of the market are fools and refuse to ever reconsider or check; and justify worms good.
Posted by: LongHairSteve | August 13, 2008 at 08:37 PM
Just may be the difference between iPhone and YouTube(before Google,of course).
Posted by: LongHairSteve | August 13, 2008 at 08:48 PM