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Apple: Unlocking iPhone Profits
(recall that dell told a reporter (fortune?) a decade ago that the prospects for apple were dim: he suggested apple closes its doors & return its remaining cash to its shareholders (since that would be the only money they could ever expect cupertino to ever generate for them in the future).
... ah yes, the gold old days - when the trade press (let alone the business press) could be relied upon to repeat whatever lies redmond fed them.
where are the msft shills when you need them?!
Rogers' iPhone Offering: Is it Worth the Wait?
100MB per month is a joke!
forget video - what kind of browsing can you do on that?!
100MB is basically 300 pages - which means an average of 10 page views per day.
get real.
all that adobe Flash crap (and even basic images) for adverts takes up huge bandwidth.
if you want to know what your own current data consumption rates are for the web then just install iStat (or any other telemetry tool in the systemUI menubar) .... you will easily notice that 100MB PER DAY is not unusual.
rogers wireless/ISP data plans for the iphone are totally out of touch ... just as crazy as their coax/ISP caps are (95GB for $65/month).
and that is not a coincidence! ... cuz the bandwidth consipracy is all about (the lack of) net neutrality for video!
apple's iTunes is a threat to rogers' (cable) own plans for IP video (they are still trying to dig themselves out of the iptv mess microsoft made for them) --
look at it this way: rogers on the coax side offers TERABYTES of unlimited video bandwidth over their private digital network for _their_ own digital video offerings (in bundles or a la carte) but puts caps on their competitors digital video offerings over the public internet (only 95GB) ...
the result is that iTunes customers using rogers ISP are being denied equal treatment with Roger's vod/iptv customers using a rogers as videoSP --
a household that wants to pay for iTunes to download HD content (even just the 720p that apple currently offers on the congested public internet) will be strictly metered for each 3GB movie or 1GB tv episode they watch -- if each member of a household (4 persons) consumes just 1 title per day then the household would require nearly 500GB of bandwidth each month!
of course when rogers (and att which is also trying the same stunt) starts sending $100 bills to its customers for overage charges you can be sure that many customers will feel like they have no other practical choice other than to give up using the public internet (isp) for video & instead accept whatever shiite their vsp offers on its own private iptv network!
it is incomprehensible how the crtc (or the fcc or ofcom and other regulators) can fail to see that this blatant discrimination is fundamentally unfair & restrictive of competition!?
the unrealistic caps on wireless data are probably part of plan to try and pull the same stunt as with wireline caps ...
so dont be surprised if rogers tries to bring DVB-H (mobile tv) to market with unlimited data for its _own_ preferred private video network but with punishingly restrictive data plans for video on the public wireless internet (iphone).
The ridiculously high wireless rates (and low bandwidth caps) in canada are the result of a lack of competition.
canadians can only pray that foreign ownership rules (but only for NEW investment) in canada are liberalized in telecoms so that the incumbents can stop trying pull this shiite all the time!