Re: [Fed-Talk] Apple / AT&T Exclusivity Agreement
Re: [Fed-Talk] Apple / AT&T Exclusivity Agreement
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Apple / AT&T Exclusivity Agreement
- From: <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:37:14 -0400
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- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] Apple / AT&T Exclusivity Agreement
How's the battery life?
On Jun 10, 2010, at 10:29 AM, Pike, Michael (IHS/HQ) wrote:
> I pay the 29 and I get 6gb tethered traffic and unlimited phone traffic.
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> ATT clumps them together and caps at two.
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> I also use the EVO has a hotspot. I can share my connection with 7 machines for that one 30 rate. IPhone is single connection tether using the same dataflow (2gb cap)
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> Pay ATT to enable a function and get no additional data?
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> I love Apple don't get me wrong but android has passed ios in my opinion. Perhaps you should use one.
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> It's faster, definitely has all the useful apps ported already (290k apps of which 90 percent are crap is not good)
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> Clouds fly across my home screen when a weather alert comes up. Ios... can't do it.
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> I enjoy my background stars flying at warp speed while my icons move. I enjoy unlimited expose style screens and not flicking through them.
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> I enjoy video chat over 3g, 4g and WiFi today.
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> Give EVO a test drive. Thats all I am saying.
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> Sent from my HTC EVO 4G Android Phone
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> ----- Reply message -----
> From: "Dave Schroeder" <email@hidden>
> Date: Thu, Jun 10, 2010 11:18 am
> Subject: [Fed-Talk] Apple / AT&T Exclusivity Agreement
> To: "Pike, Michael (IHS/HQ)" <email@hidden>
> Cc: "IT2 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR" <email@hidden>, "email@hidden" <email@hidden>
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> AT&T won't have butchered anything.
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> I see that you ignored my points about Sprint banning all tethering without a specific $29.99/mo plan in response to your carping about AT&T's data rate changes, but that aside, the iPhone still has far more share than Android, and the only reason the 1Q numbers were they way they were is everyone waiting for iPhone 4.
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> All of the mobile developers I'm talking with at WWDC have a common refrain: Android is incredibly fragmented both from an OS and device perspective. It's a great platform, but it only is what it is BECAUSE OF what the iPhone did in this space (forced a carrier to cede control of what goes on the handset, which forced others to do the same, creating a suitable marketplace for Android to even exist).
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> I like the EVO too, but Android just isn't as polished as iOS. You have to compare apples to apples here; you can't say, "I'm jumping ship because AT&T does XYZ" when Sprint does the same thing, but your device just allows you to circumvent your contract provisions more easily.
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> No one knows the exact state of the exclusivity agreement, but you're a fool if you believe Apple is going to stay with only AT&T one second longer than it stops being beneficial (and if there is a binding exclusivity agreement, as there is generally believe to be, there is no choice until that's up anyway).
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> - Dave
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> On Jun 10, 2010, at 9:56 AM, Pike, Michael (IHS/HQ) wrote:
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>> It's too late, at least for me... we dumped all 4 iphones and went to Sprint HTC EVO last friday... it sucked because I do love the iPhone, but ATT and the 30+ dropped calls and terrible service had been enough for me... and to get a new iphone having to get a 350 ETF... that was the final straw....
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>> And now I actually like the EOV more than the iPhone... with Salling media it syncs to itunes perfectly, iphoto perfectly as well... and the big screen is nice.. and the expose style screen switching is a huge hit, reminds me of using OS X moreso than the iPhone iOS) does...
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>> In two years the competition may all be this good and ATT may very well end up having butchered the iPhone.
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>> mike
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>> On Jun 10, 2010, at 10:51 AM, IT2 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR wrote:
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>>> ALCON,
>>>
>>> My understanding of the Apple and AT&T iPhone agreement is that the
>>> currently executed contractual conditions are a five (5) year
>>> exclusivity agreement. Now, that being said, the predicates of what
>>> might offer relief to either side from the constraints of that
>>> exclusivity agreement were never made public.
>>>
>>> However, even if there were no relief option for the exclusivity
>>> agreement for Apple or AT&T, it would stand to reason that next year
>>> might well be the fifth year and relief would (ostensibly) be
>>> irrelevant anyway in that scenario, since I believe the iPhone's
>>> initiate release was at least three, maybe four years ago.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> V/R,
>>>
>>> Stuart B. Tener
>>>
>>>
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