In news:colalovesmacs-C9FB72.20143517102007@mpls-nnrp-05.inet.qwest.net,
Oxford <colalovesmacs@smart.com> typed:
> "IMHO IIRC" <NOSPAM@NOSPAM.NOSPAM> wrote:
>
>>> What? Apple has totally altered markets before beyond recognition, this
>>> is no different. Sure it takes awhile for people to catch up with what
>>> I'm saying, but they always do when they see what is happening around
>>> them.
>>
>> Which is most likely within 4.5 years:
>>
>> 1. All cell phone users will have iPhones with ATT plans.
>>
>> 2. There be about the same ratio of iPhone users with ATT cell plans to
>> other cell phone users as there are currently users of Apple computers to
>> users of non-Apple computers.
>>
>> I would think number 2.
>
> but those aren't the only 2 choices.
>
> 3) the iPhone is on all of the top 5 carriers within 2 years.
>
> 4) Apple and Google team up and buy their own part of the wireless
> spectrum and do an end run around all cell carriers.
>
> 5) and many more...
>
> most likely is No. 3 of course.... if those companies can modernize
> enough to support Visual Voice Mail and very high bandwidth devices.

Why do you need high bandwidth? I thought everything was done with WiFi.
How long does ATT have an exclusive on the iPhone in the US? I thought it
was 5 years.
Also the iPhone is only GSM - is Apple also designing one that is CDMA?