Comments on: ChangeWave survey shows just how much Apple iPhone is changing the US wireless industry http://www.intomobile.com/2007/08/02/changewave-survey-shows-just-how-much-apple-iphone-is-changing-the-us-wireless-industry.html Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:52:54 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: hardmanb http://www.intomobile.com/2007/08/02/changewave-survey-shows-just-how-much-apple-iphone-is-changing-the-us-wireless-industry.html/comment-page-1/#comment-26850 hardmanb Fri, 03 Aug 2007 21:02:20 +0000 http://www.intomobile.com/2007/08/02/changewave-survey-shows-just-how-much-apple-iphone-is-changing-the-us-wireless-industry.html#comment-26850 The numbers are on the wall, and it looks like the iPhone will not only be a success, and be a game-changing influence on the industry, but will be another "successful leg in the Apple businesses". What should be feared by the status-quo wireless world,is not just the iPhone itself, but the larger implications. The resultant moves to unlock phones, make obsolete the cheap "subsidy phones", the freeing of carrier-locked charges for music, video, web access, text messaging, IM and even phone charges...by the iPhones "sideloading" through iTunes and wifi capabilities. Has anyone yet realized that one can buy an iPhone, cancel the ATT contract without penalty within 30 days, and still have the iPhone capabilities as iPod, web browser and (now) through VOIP on wireless...phone calls? If Apple this fall releases an updated iPod with wifi, using BluEye (http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201002097), you can connect your existing cheap throwaway cellphone (if Bluetooth capable) and your carrier-of-choice into an integrated "Cheap man's iPhone". Then you can still have the iPod, Apple Display, Safari Web Experience, Video player...and your phone. The possibilities and implications are unfolding at an incredible pace. The numbers are on the wall, and it looks like the iPhone will not only be a success, and be a game-changing influence on the industry, but will be another “successful leg in the Apple businesses”.

What should be feared by the status-quo wireless world,is not just the iPhone itself, but the larger implications. The resultant moves to unlock phones, make obsolete the cheap “subsidy phones”, the freeing of carrier-locked charges for music, video, web access, text messaging, IM and even phone charges…by the iPhones “sideloading” through iTunes and wifi capabilities.

Has anyone yet realized that one can buy an iPhone, cancel the ATT contract without penalty within 30 days, and still have the iPhone capabilities as iPod, web browser and (now) through VOIP on wireless…phone calls?

If Apple this fall releases an updated iPod with wifi, using BluEye (http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201002097), you can connect your existing cheap throwaway cellphone (if Bluetooth capable) and your carrier-of-choice into an integrated “Cheap man’s iPhone”. Then you can still have the iPod, Apple Display, Safari Web Experience, Video player…and your phone.

The possibilities and implications are unfolding at an incredible pace.

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