"IMHO IIRC" <NOSPAM@NOSPAM.NOSPAM> wrote in message
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> 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?
>
They did. But Verizon being 1st in line for the iphone, shot the iphone
down. Then they got AT&T