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Canada: Where Art Thou iPhone?
By Mark Evans | March 28, 2008
It’s hard to believe the iPhone has been out there for nearly a year…and there are absolutely, positively no signs that it’s coming to Canada.
This is getting ridiculous. I mean, the iPhone looks like it is going to be introduced in New Zealand - a place where there are more sheep than people - 60 million sheep vs. 3 million Kiwis to be exact. Come on, it’s not like Canada is half-way around the world (unlike New Zealand) or a digital backwater - although the alarming lack of real wireless competition, Pandora, iTunes video, NetFlix, SkypeOut et al makes us digital peasants.
I think it comes down to the fact Steve Jobs doesn’t like Canada. Think about it, when the last time Jobs visited the land of maple syrup, hockey, Bloody Caesar’s, beer with 5% alcohol content, hockey, snow, two months of summer, Bobby Orr and a Tim Horton’s on every corner?
The conspiracy theorists among you may contend Apple’s inability to bring the iPhone north of the border has something to do with the fact Toronto-based Comwave Telecom apparently owns the Canadian trademark to the name “iPhone”, and that a deal has yet to be struck. Come on, Comwave is a teeny-tiny, itsby, bitsy company while Apple is, well, Apple. Where’s Rogers’ domo Ted Rogers when you need him given Rogers will likely be the first Canadian carrier to offer the iPhone?
Not that I want an iPhone but all of us in Canada are starting to take the fact we are iPhone-less personally. Enough already, we want the iPhone!
Update: This is embarrassing. Fortune is already talking about iPhone 2.0 while Canada is still waiting for iPhone 1.0.
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