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Originally Posted by stonetools
I think that what you are not seeing is that non-IPhone carriers LOSE customers to carriers that have the iPhone.
Its better than to have a low margin customer than no customer.
Now to you, an iPhone is just like any other smartphone, but clearly the smartphone buying public doesn't see it that way, and the carriers are mindful of that, hence their willingness to pay more for the iPhone.
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stonetools, I understand that. The carriers are gaining additional customers and losing money, and if they didn't have the iPhone would probably lose some the customers that they had already, though they might make more money overall.
The point of the article was that for the carriers the iPhone is a bittersweet drug. They can't do without it, but it hurts.
My joke was that they are trying to make up for the individual losses with volume.
The obvious answer in a logic driven world would be for the carriers to just charge as normal for the iPhone, and not defray so much of its cost.
But alas, alas, they are caught in the opium den stupor and are "chasing the dragon." i.e. the Apple customers.
I believe that this adds to the desire of the carriers to charge more for usage, to cap the amounts of data, and to drive the customers that have unlimited usage back to the caps by throttling them when they go over 2GB.
Yeah you have unlimited usage Mr big user, but at around 2.5 GB you will be at 28KiloBaud. ((See we are living up to our promise.))