{"id":1610,"date":"2007-07-02T05:14:50","date_gmt":"2007-07-02T12:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1610"},"modified":"2007-07-02T05:58:50","modified_gmt":"2007-07-02T12:58:50","slug":"with-the-iphone-is-apples-steve-jobs-placing-a-collect-call-to-the-entire-wireless-communications-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1610\/with-the-iphone-is-apples-steve-jobs-placing-a-collect-call-to-the-entire-wireless-communications-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"With the iPhone is Apple’s Steve Jobs placing a collect call to the entire wireless communications industry?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I haven’t laid my own hands on an iPhone yet, and we’re off to Lost Wages for our anniversary, so unless I infest an Apple Store in Clark County, my own gratification will have to wait still longer. I’m assuming, if you were interested, you had your fill of iPhone news over the weekend. If not, Engadget<\/a> has words, links and tons of killer video.<\/p>\n

Here’s a fascinating take from Publishing 2.0<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Apple will significantly improve the already revolutionary iPhone in subsequent generations, and lower the price, as they did with the iPod. With each new release, more and more people will look at Verizon and Sprint, who don’t carry the iPhone, and say, WTF!?<\/p>\n

The real battle for control is between Verizon, which has hands down the best network, and Apple, which now has hands down the best handset. The tide will turn when die hard Verizon customers start switching in significant numbers to AT&T to get an iPhone. People like me, who stood firm on the network is more important principle, will crack under the pressure. There will come a tipping point, then, when the cost to Verizon of refusing Apple’s terms will be greater than losing customers to the iPhone.<\/p>\n

What Apple really wants is to sell unlocked iPhones that can be used on any network — and I believe they will pull it off. Thus, Apple will do to the wireless carriers and other cell phone makers what they did to the music industry and makers of digital music players — they will completely take over.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

More:<\/i><\/b> The contrary argument<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Still more:<\/i><\/b> Half-a-million sold<\/a>.
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Technorati Tags: real estate<\/a>, real estate marketing<\/a><\/p>\n

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I haven’t laid my own hands on an iPhone yet, and we’re off to Lost Wages for our anniversary, so unless I infest an Apple Store in Clark County, my own gratification will have to wait still longer. I’m assuming, if you were interested, you had your fill of iPhone news over the weekend. 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