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Originally Posted by Flames0910
Having an invested partner from the start was huge for Apple. It's easy to look back now and say that it was a mistake, but i think we underestimate how much AT&T played into getting the iPhone out the door (properly tested, subsidized and well-supported)
The cellphone market is so big, even Apple would have had trouble going at it alone. The others would have just walled them out and made it incredibly difficult + expensive to get an iPhone plan, ensuring a flop. You can'tjust shake up a multi-billion dollar industry on a whim. It takes an incredible amount of resources and relationships to pull off.
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Truth. It's popular to crap on AT&T but the fact is they are the only carrier of an insanely popular device that stresses their network like nothing before it. I heard on Macbreak a few months back that even though the phone has been out for 3 years, AT&T is only now able to get their network improved because it takes that long to get towers up and functional.