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Originally Posted by Azayzel
As to being locked to a specific network... I think it totally sucks. I know many times while I was quaintly happy with my current provider, they had hardly a good selection of decent mobile phones that met my requirements. Should I have to suck it up and take a crappy plan with another network simply because I want to use the technology of one of the phones that meets my needs? I don't think so. The phone company is selling their service, not the devices, so the phones should be available in their various forms; i.e., CDMA, GPRS, GMS, etc., on various networks, why bother with limiting themselves to one vendor? Apple should have made a deal with all the vendors to get the greater mass appeal. While I can understand that they probably signed some lucrative deal with whomever provides their services, they pissed a lot of people off who may have paid what they were asking for the phones but won't now due to not wanting to switch providers.
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But that's the whole point of it, isn't it? The fact that the phone only works through one provider is what makes it valuable to that provider - I'm sure that AT&T paid Apple a great deal of money for that "exclusive" contract. The same thing's true here in the UK - Apple have signed an exclusive deal with T-Mobile to sell it here which it's launched this autumn.
As a matter of interest, had the iPhone been, say, 50% more expensive, but "open", would you still have been willing to buy one?