article<\/a> about the strained relationship between Apple and AT&T, but the talk about Verizon iPhone is either the journalist making up shit as link bait (any article mentioning Verizon and iPhone is sure to get a lot of reads) or the Apple contacts were just fucking with them (which actually would be a really fun thing to do if you worked for the fruit company). \u00a0I knew for sure it was pure myth when I read the part where Apple allegedly dropped the Verizon iPhone plans upon realizing that the CDMA radio chip was too big and would require a nontrivial redesign of iPhone’s innards. \u00a0Apple’s influential enough to get Intel to redesign chips for them and let Apple have them early; to say that Apple couldn’t either modify iPhone’s design for CDMA chip or get a smaller chip is just dumb. \u00a0And even if a CDMA iPhone wasn’t a choice, Apple could have sold the iPhone unlocked or to other carriers in the US, but isn’t. \u00a0It isn’t that Apple doesn’t want the extra customers, it’s the exclusivity agreement.<\/p>\nNow, I’m sure there are clauses in the contract between Apple and AT&T that would allow iPhone to go non-exclusive. \u00a0For instance, there is probably a clause for low sales. \u00a0As you’ll note, iPhone’s sales surely haven’t been suffering, so no chance that clause will save us from the wrath of Ma Bell. \u00a0And since we didn’t really have phones using data back in 2007, Apple was na\u00c3\u00afve and didn’t bother putting in a network performance clause. \u00a0After all, we had never really seen cell networks get congested before iPhone, so how were we to know that cell networks were so vastly unprepared for us to actually start using data?<\/p>\n
The bitter truth here is that US Americans using iPhones won’t have access to good… maps, like Verizon’s… until 2012. \u00a0Assuming that efficient enough radios exist by then, we’ll likely see iPhone jump straight into LTE, which happens to be what Verizon is starting this year. \u00a0By 2012, their LTE network should be nice and well developed, and the LTE iPhones will work around the world. \u00a0Man, I look forward to these days.<\/p>\n
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Is there a bookie that will let me place a bet that AT&T will remain the exclusive iPhone carrier for a period of time? \u00a0If so, I could be sitting on a gold mine. You don’t need me to tell you that Verizon iPhone rumors are a dime a dozen and that they’ve been around […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-iphone"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icanthascheezburger.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icanthascheezburger.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icanthascheezburger.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icanthascheezburger.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icanthascheezburger.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icanthascheezburger.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icanthascheezburger.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icanthascheezburger.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icanthascheezburger.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}