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**Cheeniandab** · 06-19-2007, 04:49 PM

Hope it gets over to the UK soon, I know for sure my father and I are getting an iPhone! That along with the news that the new iMac's are due in August I will be set for a good few years personal technology wise [thumbup]

I hear Apple’s having a hard time finding a network provider over there! I think a couple companies basically have said “**** Apple, we’ll NEVER carry it” and the others just haven’t agreed to Apple’s terms. I’m not sure Apple will bow down to what the networks want since Apple was able to get so much control of it over here in America. I for one am happy for the company making the product to get a lot of control over what runs on it and what doesn’t and even marketing and what not, I’m sick of the cell companies disabling half the stuff on the devices and what not. You Europe guys might not see it for awhile or at all though!

Edit: http://www.macrumors.com/2007/06/14/...ner-in-europe/

"Operators consistently told us, not for attribution, of course, that they had spoken to Apple and found the company 'unbelievably arrogant', making demands that 'simply cannot be justified no matter how hot the product is'," Avi Greengart, a principal analyst at Current Analysis, wrote in an advisory on Monday. I hate any company that thinks like that. If their customers want it and the product is on fire then the company should so everything in their power to get it to the customers so they can keep people happy. Happy people equal higher retention and probably higher revenue from them.

06-19-2007, 04:49 PM	#3
Cheeniandab Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 416 Senior Member	Hope it gets over to the UK soon, I know for sure my father and I are getting an iPhone! That along with the news that the new iMac's are due in August I will be set for a good few years personal technology wise [thumbup] I hear Apple’s having a hard time finding a network provider over there! I think a couple companies basically have said “**** Apple, we’ll NEVER carry it” and the others just haven’t agreed to Apple’s terms. I’m not sure Apple will bow down to what the networks want since Apple was able to get so much control of it over here in America. I for one am happy for the company making the product to get a lot of control over what runs on it and what doesn’t and even marketing and what not, I’m sick of the cell companies disabling half the stuff on the devices and what not. You Europe guys might not see it for awhile or at all though! Edit: http://www.macrumors.com/2007/06/14/...ner-in-europe/ "Operators consistently told us, not for attribution, of course, that they had spoken to Apple and found the company 'unbelievably arrogant', making demands that 'simply cannot be justified no matter how hot the product is'," Avi Greengart, a principal analyst at Current Analysis, wrote in an advisory on Monday. I hate any company that thinks like that. If their customers want it and the product is on fire then the company should so everything in their power to get it to the customers so they can keep people happy. Happy people equal higher retention and probably higher revenue from them.
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