[Cialug] OT: Pre

[Brandon Griffis]

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Rob Freiburger <rob at robfreiburger.com>wrote:

> I doubt it was in Apple's interests to be locked into an exclusive
> agreement when they were finding carriers back when the iPhone was top
> secret. I think most carriers thought Apple wouldn't be able to pull
> it off.


Na.  From what I heard everyone was interested from day 1.  AT&T was just
able to *afford* them (mostly by overcharging their customers).  Apple got
massively greater kickbacks from AT&T for the exclusivity.  Esp on the 1st
gen iPhone.

-B
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