Steve Jobs wanted to create his own mobile carrier
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1. mills0806 posted on 15 Nov 2011, 20:16 10 1
Couldn't hurt i guess the carriers now are pretty much douches anyways.
26. bobfreking55 posted on 16 Nov 2011, 05:12 6 0
But with the OS, Phone and Network all owned by a single company...
all cool but
It's starting to feel scary.
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54. andro. posted on 16 Nov 2011, 14:22 1 0
Agreed the level of control,surveillance and money goughing by an apple carrier network would indeed be scary,but maybe it might be an eye opener for apple when they see so many of their bill paying customers complaining of dropping calls and threatening to cancel their contracts.
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53. DincWithMIUI posted on 16 Nov 2011, 14:16 0 0
Douches that employ over 250,000 employees directly in the US and probably a million people total. You are right. They are horrible.
2. xiobnb posted on 15 Nov 2011, 20:20 8 0
i wish google would come out with a new and cheap carrier...its ridiculous how expensive phone plans are today
3. taco50 posted on 15 Nov 2011, 20:21 7 1
I think at some point google will become a carrier. They already own spectrum and offer google voice which now includes voip on pc's
7. belovedson posted on 15 Nov 2011, 20:30 0 1
really doesnt make any business sense for google to start its own carrier. its better that google piggyback on sprint. share spectrum and offload most of the data that users need to wireless service providers.
14. MichaelHeller posted on 15 Nov 2011, 20:57 6 0
It makes perfect business sense, especially since given Sprint's success rate, it seems pretty likely that Google could run the company better than it's been running itself.
8. remixfa posted on 15 Nov 2011, 20:31 3 4
one could hope. and yes, with google's open arms policies, an iphone would probably live happily side by side with a nexus on google's carrier.
11. taco50 posted on 15 Nov 2011, 20:43 6 3
check the samsung korea thread where you get owned by facts again.
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30. remixfa posted on 16 Nov 2011, 09:50 0 1
and this is why you are the biggest troll on the site.
1) you bring up something that has NOTHING to do with what anyone is talking about
2) you didnt own me on anything. your an idiot.
hey look..i think someone is crossing a bridge somewhere.. shouldnt you go stalk them?
46. remixfa posted on 16 Nov 2011, 13:12 0 1
you are really just a big stupid troll arent you?
you didnt own anything.. i doubt u could own yourself. And what does any of that have to do with this conversation. You are just trying your best to start a flame war up. I hope the next time you get a vacation, its permanent.. geesh. you obviously learned nothing from your time away.
32. downphoenix posted on 16 Nov 2011, 10:32 0 0
true but Apple would never allow their phone on that carrier as Google is a direct competitor whereas the existing carriers arent competing with Apple. Also Im sure Google would want no part in bad iphone deals like Sprint signed so they wouldnt agree to apple unless Apple was to give a fair price.
42. MichaelHeller posted on 16 Nov 2011, 13:07 2 0
If the iPhone didn't exist on Google's carrier it would be because Google wouldn't agree to the ridiculous subsidies that Apple demands, not that Google shut it out as an anti-competitive move.
56. remixfa posted on 16 Nov 2011, 15:57 1 0
michael, if google became a carrier, i would love to be a fly on the wall of the meeting with tim cook where they try to come to terms over iphone sales.. lol.
13. MichaelHeller posted on 15 Nov 2011, 20:56 2 0
It seems almost inevitable that Apple or Google would eventually be a carrier. It's just a matter of whether the government would allow it to happen, especially with Google.
18. Scuba_Steve posted on 15 Nov 2011, 23:50 1 1
Agreed. Google is already on the radar and or dare I say, s**t list, for the gov?
