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Vodafone, New Zealand’s biggest mobile-phone operator, will start selling the 3G iPhone at 12.01 am Friday morning. That’s 8 am on Thursday (Jully 10) here on the east coast of the United States. Who will be the first Kiwi in the world to buy the much ballyhooed%
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1 year ago
Although the plans aren't that much expensive, configuring the plans with the same MB of data and different minutes/sms makes me realize:
- Vodafone doesn't get the iPhone as a handheld computer that does phone but thinks it's a cellphone with Internet;
- Vodafone is resisting the wave of change from voice centric networks to data/IP centric networks;
- This puts the iPhone user in a straitjacket forcing him to always walk on egg shells and be extremely careful with the mileage and to be strapped at home or to a Wi-Fi hotspot to download anything significant [since the only cell carrier that has Wi-Fi hotspots doesn't carry the iPhone and Vodafone doesn't, there you have it]. And it stops the user from using Google Maps and avoid net accessing apps from the App Store;
- Vodafone is greedy, it knows it'll be easy for any user - more so the ones that are more computing challenged - to spend another at least 250MB which will make for an extra €15/month or more!
All in all, I'm sure this was NOT what Steve Jobs had in mind for the iPhone.
The iPhone concept and its success comes from having an internet accessing computer in one's pocket/hand - having it on a 250MB/month straitjacket is not what it's meant for!