In alt.cellular.attws 4phun <vic.healey@gmail.com> wrote:
> The whole GSM vs CDMA debate is pretty much over for most of the
> world, all you have to look at is the graph of the competing
> standards:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:C...technology.svg
>
> Notice the other line about subscriber growth too.
>
>

Apple is nothing if not about planned obsolecense and upgrades. With a
company like Verizon, users will have to go through the hassle of calling up
Verizon, buying a Verizon blessed [i]phone and then get it activated. With
GSM, Apple simply releases a new iPhonse [unlocked ... but that is in the
future] and a user is free to just take the SIM out of the old one and put it
in the new one.

That alone seems like a major reason to me.

Also, since Europe is a major market for Apple, they are predominantly GSM, so
it also make sense from that perspective.

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Thomas T. Veldhouse

In the land of the dark the Ship of the Sun is driven by the Grateful Dead.
-- Egyptian Book of the Dead