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Originally Posted by Thank The Cheese  There are some sites suggesting that the iPhone is not a phone at all, but a technology that will be introduced into new Macs -- ie. VoIP. I think that is more likely than an actual mobile phone for reasons MisterMe points out. It's a very messy market to get into and I don't know Apple is ready, or willing, to jump in. |
and all the other hints, the domain name, the text in the iTunes resources, the patents ?
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Originally Posted by Thank The Cheese Even if they were to get things rolling in the USA, what about other countries? Every county has their own mobile carriers and systems in place. It would be very difficult and expensive to penetrate the US market, let alone other countries'. |
that's simply not true, all other countries have GPS and 3G, and unlike in the US, anybody can buy any phone, carriers d'ont have a monopoly, Apple can sell it's phone thru the same channels as the iPods and Macs.
(i live in europe)