Dear Blogosphere,
Shut up about the iPhone.
I don’t want to hear it.
I am already totally over the iPhone, and won’t even see one until 2008, at the earliest. See, Dear Blogosphere, not all of us live in the US of A.
Not all of are effected by the apparent revolution caused by some people strapping a cell phone onto an iPod and hooking it up to a network that barely works.
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It does seem apparent that Apple is going to do to the mobile phone market what they did to the MP3 player market. If they can survive the telecommunications companies - all reports are saying that AT&T are really dropping the ball. In the music market, Apple could get traction without playing directly with the Record Companies, because people already had music collections. Once the iPod took-off, Apple had some leverage to play with. In the telecommunications world, things are very different … you can’t have an iPhone without the network, which means playing with the telcos. Australia’s equivalent of AT&T, Telstra, has a long history of customer abuse and mismanagement, but it’s the dominant player (read: only player in some areas of Australia) and Apple may be forced to deal with them.