My summary of the state of the mobile phone industry in the US
Elliot Ronen [17: 53:11]: What's funny about the whole situation is that two companies have now tried to break into the mobile phone industry with the intention of changing how it works:
Elliot Ronen [17: 53:15]: Number 2 is Google.
Elliot Ronen [17: 53:42]: The whole point of the Nexus 1 when it came out was that you could buy it through them, no subsidized price and it was vanilla Android, the carriers couldn't touch it
Elliot Ronen [17: 53:47]: and it sold like 4 units.
Elliot Ronen [17: 53:57]: And the Verizon version was canned, and it didn't have ATT 3G
Elliot Ronen [17: 54:08]: So it only ended up on T-mobile in the US, so only people in Syracuse could use it.
Elliot Ronen [17: 54:14]: The first was Apple.
Elliot Ronen [17: 54:28]: Who when the iPhone first came out, refused to let ATT subsidize it or offer it with a contract
Elliot Ronen [17: 54:36]: They were like, NO ATT YOUR RULES ARE DUMB
Elliot Ronen [17: 54:51]: BUY OUR PHONE IT DOES PRACTICALLY NOTHING BUT SHIIIIINYYYY $700
Elliot Ronen [17: 55:30]: And then Apple was like, "oh shit, we actually wanted to make money with this thing" and let ATT subsidize it down to $199 with the launch of the 3G and oh look now their stock price is $330.
Elliot Ronen [17: 55:40]: And the first iPhone and iPhone 3G were both crap
Elliot Ronen [17: 55:50]: So yeah, the system sucks, but if Apple and Google can't break it, it's unbreakable :/
Elliot Ronen [17: 55:58]: And with that rant, I'm going home
