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more on All hail the new iPhone - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 09:41:02 -0500
Begin forwarded message: From: Rod Van Meter <rdv () tera ics keio ac jp> Date: January 13, 2007 12:13:46 AM EST To: dave () farber netCc: Thomas Leavitt <thomas () thomasleavitt org>, Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com> Subject: re: [IP] more on All hail the new iPhone - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Reply-To: rdv () tera ics keio ac jp
I'm utterly baffled as to why Steve Jobs would tie the success of the launch of this product to a single vendor...
Why? Like it or not, AT&T (or whatever the name is this week) is effectively the only choice if you want to use GSM in the U.S., and if you want to sell the product anywhere else in the world, you MUST do GSM. CDMA-1x is available, to a first approximation, only in the U.S., Japan, South Korea, and parts of China. Anywhere else, it's GSM, with or without EDGE, leading into WCDMA (3G).
In fact, if it is his attention to capture 1% of the WORLD cellphone market, that seems almost mandatory...
There you have it. You have to be careful with sales stats. Most of the world's cell phone makers, when they cite, e.g., "40% of the world market", there is often an asterisk and the fine print says, "except Japan". Japan, until relatively recently, was an entirely different world for cell phones, with sales very large compared to its population, but the figure of a billion phones a year sounds like it includes Japan. I'm actually fairly indifferent to the iPhone, but it doesn't matter -- with no WCDMA, it's useless here. Quad-band GSM will cover most of the world except Japan and South Korea, but I'll have to wait for a WCDMA (or, if I'm willing to change providers, CDMA-1x) version, while Koreans will have to wait for the -1x. I'm not holding my breath, though; it's HARD. If you printed out all of the specs for 3G, they wouldn't fit on the average American kitchen table -- but that's a very long story. Speaking of such things, I have often found the maps and other info available at http://www.gsmworld.com/roaming/gsminfo/index.shtml to be useful. --Rod ------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ipArchives at: Archives: http://archives.listbox.com/247/
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