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AT&T extends exclusivity with Apple, no Verizon iPhone until 2011? ? Boy Genius Report

Take this one with the largest grain of salt that you can find…the latest rumor on the status of the Verizon Wireless iPhone suggests that the phone may not come to fruition until 2011. As we all know, AT&T is offering data plans for the iPad on a non-contract basis at the lowly price of $15 for 250MB of data and $30 for unlimited data. According to analyst Brian Marshall of BroadPoint AmTech, AT&T would not have agreed to such a drastic price reduction, and no-contract plans, without receiving something big from Apple in return. That “big something”, he hypothesizes, is an extension of the iPhone exclusivity agreement that AT&T currently has enjoyed with Apple in the U.S. Under this quid pro quo agreement, AT&T’s exclusivity would be extended until the end of 2010, effectively shuttering any plans to launch the iPhone on Big Red in 2010.
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Makes sense with the ever-increasing border wars taking place, including repackaging the backflip as a bing centric phone.
lowly price of $15 for 250MB of data
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Let's hope Sprint's unmatched phone (EVO 4G) & network (4G) put some pressure on the big two to make their rates more reasonable. I should be able to get the wife some data without forking over 360 per year.
 
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Nintendo Declares War On Apple - Gaming - Gizmodo
The Dogs of War: Apple vs. Google vs. Microsoft - Apple - Gizmodo

The unofficial battle lines:

Google, Adobe, Nintendo, HTC

vs

Apple, Microsoft (these two are at odds but less than vs Google)

Meanwhile no one cares about Sprint or Palm (though we'll see if HP revives their quality OS in a useful market)

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I've said it before and I'll say it again.

Nintendo Phone!
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I got the Wii at launch, it was cool for like a week and it's been sitting around since then. It got old pretty quick for me.
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I still find Apple as a gaming treat really funny, especially when compared to Mirosoft, Nintendo and Sony. Yes, the iPhone/Touch sells a lot (the DS kills it though every month) and yes, many of these buyers do tinker with games on them but Apple and gaming treat just dont go together.

They have no first party studios (forget good first party), they have no good gaming IPs, their devices so far has lacked buttons or any innovative technology. If they think they can make it big in the gaming industry based off iPhone type games then they have a rude awakening coming.
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Well, despite all their wonderful innovations (by innovations I mean preexisting things for which they take credit) Apple has a tendency to be a bit behind everyone else in a number of areas yet because of their immense popularity (or trendiness) still stays in the limelight.

In that respect I can agree that Apple holds back progress.

Just for example, think of everything smart phones and Pocket PCs could do before the iPhone.

Now here we are wondering why we cant remove batteries, why we have proprietary connectors instead of USB, no removable memory, why we can't have a file browser of some kind, backgrounds, Flash, etc.

It's a good thing they lack that same hold over personal computers or laptops, or we'd experience the same thing. We'd be at the whim of whatever they decide to include or -more often - exclude.

Apple is far too limiting, too closed, far too much of a control freak. In the interest of progress, that type of company isn't one that should be as much of an influence as it is.
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Dryden;1502756; said:
[strike]Foxconn security team beats man to death, throws him off roof for major screw-up[/strike] Chinese worker commits suicide over lost iPhone 4G prototype.

Chinese worker commits suicide over missing iPhone - Yahoo! Finance
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Posted that 7-22 of last year. Bumping it since I came across this this morning:

Foxconn worker dies in China; 10th in a year
Foxconn worker falls to death in China, the 10th this year at iPod maker

GUANGZHOU, China (AP) -- A Chinese employee of Foxconn Technology Group fell from a building and died Tuesday, state-run media said, in the 10th such death this year at the world's largest contract maker of electronics, such as the iPod, Dell computers and Nokia phones.

Police have yet to determine if the victim, Li Hai, 19, committed suicide after working at the plant for only 42 days, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. Foxconn did not immediately comment on the death.

The death is the ninth at Foxconn's massive plant in the southern city of Shenzhen, which employs more than 300,000 people. Two other workers have tried to kill themselves by jumping from buildings in Shenzhen but they survived. Another suicide occurred at a smaller plant in northern Hebei province in January.

Labor activists say the string of suicides back up their long-standing allegations that workers toil in terrible conditions at Foxconn. They claim shifts are long, the assembly line moves too fast and managers enforce military-style discipline on the work force.

In Hong Kong on Tuesday, about a dozen labor activists protested at Foxconn offices in the Chinese territory. They held signs that said, "Foxconn lacks a conscience" and "Suicide is no accident." The protesters from the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions burned cardboard cutouts resembling iPhones.

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That Foxconn makes iPhones is inconsequential and is being used by the media to drive the story (it's the hot device). The fact of the matter is Foxconn probably makes 95% of everything you buy or have ever bought that has a circuit board in it, regardless what brand name is on the front of the device.
 
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Any feedback about the iPAD? I am thinking of getting one for the biz.

The biggest issue is no flash, my websites use flash and I need it to demo the websites. Thinking I will just download foxfire and use that as the browser.

Also, I am hearing that there will be a software patch for my iPHONE that will allow it to be the wireless internet source with no hard teather for the iPAD. Then I won't need the modem on the pad or a second internet payment and I have unlimited minutes on my phone so I can use it all day.

The plan is to use the iPAD to demo the website and also to teather it to a HD flatscreen so people can watch in a group at expos.

If you want to see what I do, here is the website I would be talking about. All of those sliders are flash.

www.infinitnutrition.us

Interested in feedback on my plan.
 
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I can't speak to the iPad, but as for iPhone tethering...

It's already available in other countries, but not in the US. The holdup isn't Apple per se, it's the limitations of AT&T. Their data network is already under stress in large metro areas, and tethering would only make it worse if not bring it to a screeching halt altogether. I don't think we'll see iPhone tethering in the US until the device is offered on multiple carriers.

In fact, after the rumors of AT&T tethering in the US started popping up a few weeks ago, AT&T reiterated their position on the matter for now, basically saying that their network would be effed in the ay if they allowed it:

iPhone tethering on AT&T still waiting on better network performance -- Engadget
 
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Confirmed: Apple's next iPhone will have video chat, feature to be shown in ads directed by Sam Mendes
Apparently American Beauty director Sam Mendes is in the process of putting together a series of commercials for Apple's next iPhone
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the ads will feature at least one spot where a mother and daughter are having a video chat conversation using the new front-facing camera that's been spied on the face of that iPhone floating around Vietnam and Northern California.
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Good feature, though not a unique one. The flagship android phone will have it as well (HTC EVO 4G), and most expect it to start trickling out on other models (especially since HTC debuts about 7000 phone models a day).



Proposed class action settlement would let you unlock almost any AT&T handset -- except the iPhone




White next-gen iPhone apparently materializes in full form

There might be a white 4G iPhone, but this one looks like a fake... the bottom button seems to indicate someone slapped on an extra white layer.
 
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CleveBucks;1708187; said:
How the hell do they have a manufacturing facility that employs 300,000 people?
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You can pack a lot of people into a foundry when you don't have to provide things like restrooms, cafeterias, egress, or even trivial shit like "elbow room."

But realistically, Foxconn does make virtually everything that contains a printed circuit board. They're cranking out Dells alongside IBMs, iPhones alongside Androids, and Wiis alongside PS3s and 360s. I would imagine their "facility" is a city. They probably bus their workforce in and throw dissenters off the roof. The State run newspaper reports these "suicides."

In America, your hamburgers and chicken patties and bacon are made the same way. Sugardale buses in Latinos to hack up their bacon, then has the ones that complain arrested as illegals after about 45 days worth of work.
 
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