With Apple's iPhone furor dying down a bit now, was Cingular Wireless the best company for Apple to have done business with? I am sure Apple -- two years ago -- wanted the iPhone to be available to as much of the world as possible. That decision drove the company to Cingular, as it operates not only the largest-subscriber mobile business in the U.S., but it uses the world GSM standard. Those two key ingredients were what made Apple "pick" Cingular as its partner most likely.
Will you switch to Cingular...err, AT&T... this summer to get an iPhone, though?
1. I don't think there was a choice. It had to be GSM, and while T-Mobile certainly feels less evil, the coverage and customer base advantage (not to mention native dual-band) lies with Cingular. They win by default, not on merit. As long as we persist in having CDMA *and* GSM, and only one dual-band carrier on each standard, we'll stay retarded compared to the rest of the wireless world.
Posted at 11:11PM on Jan 18th 2007 by J