[LINK] the Apple iPhone rort

[Ivan Trundle]

On 12/07/2007, at 3:33 PM, David Goldstein wrote:

> As for your bottom line, whatever has been done by AT&T, the point  
> is, if one buys an iPhone, they are locked to an exclusive contract  
> with AT&T for some years. If you want to leave AT&T, you're left  
> with a useless paperweight, which has been pointed out in other  
> sources.

The iPhone buyer has the option of agreeing to a 2-yr contract with  
AT&T, or can easily sidestep this and have a device that can browse  
the web and act as an iPod, amongst other things. It hasn't been a  
problem for some people who are not interested in being part of  
AT&T's customer base. And there are enough people looking at opening  
up other functions of their 'useless paperweight'.

The 'other sources' need better information.

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