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Old 11-02-2009, 04:57 PM   #22
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Originally Posted by jmen24 View Post
While I agree that the Iphone is cool and compared to my BBerry is more of a play thing than a work thing. I still believe that Apple does not get it, when it comes to what customers want. Why would you partner a phone like this with a sub-par network like At&t.
Rumors abound, but the story is that Apple shopped it to Verizon first but the deal fell apart. Verizon wanted too much control/crippling over the phone (believable based on how they have crippled basic Bluetooth functionality on other devices and so on).

Also remember that is was originally on Cingular before AT&T bought Cingular, and that at the time Cingular was looking to really trying to 1-up Verizons network.
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