Comments on: Attention, Digital Peasants: the iPhone is Coming http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/04/29/attention-digital-peasants-the-iphone-is-coming/ Insight and Analysis from North of the Border Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:21:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: The Weekly Wrap | Mark Evans http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/04/29/attention-digital-peasants-the-iphone-is-coming/#comment-58311 The Weekly Wrap | Mark Evans Sat, 03 May 2008 12:23:29 +0000 http://www.markevanstech.com/?p=3369#comment-58311 [...] Attention Digital Peasants: Rogers will bring the iPhone to Canada this year but no details about when and, more important, [...] [...] Attention Digital Peasants: Rogers will bring the iPhone to Canada this year but no details about when and, more important, [...]

]]> By: david lundquist http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/04/29/attention-digital-peasants-the-iphone-is-coming/#comment-57545 david lundquist Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:05:12 +0000 http://www.markevanstech.com/?p=3369#comment-57545 Roger's is busy hacking up all its data plans, on high speed internet they keep shoving outrageous changes down everyone's throat. If the IPhone is ever released here, rogers will neuter it. The terse release says it all... Apple and Rogers still don't have a real deal Roger’s is busy hacking up all its data plans, on high speed internet they keep shoving outrageous changes down everyone’s throat. If the IPhone is ever released here, rogers will neuter it. The terse release says it all… Apple and Rogers still don’t have a real deal

]]> By: Zimer http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/04/29/attention-digital-peasants-the-iphone-is-coming/#comment-57468 Zimer Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:01:16 +0000 http://www.markevanstech.com/?p=3369#comment-57468 Total monopoly for Rogers, only one with 3G!! Too lucrative for Rogers to limit data plans and then charge by megabit?? Keep in mind that Apple will receive some funds off the plans sold for the duration of the contract. They do with AT&T I am sure!!! I probably think that unlimited plans are out of the question however I hope that Rogers does offer plans that suits ones needs from regular to business plans, affordable though. zimer Total monopoly for Rogers, only one with 3G!! Too lucrative for Rogers to limit data plans and then charge by megabit??
Keep in mind that Apple will receive some funds off the plans sold for the duration of the contract. They do with AT&T I am sure!!!
I probably think that unlimited plans are out of the question however I hope that Rogers does offer plans that suits ones needs from regular to business plans, affordable though.

zimer

]]> By: Travis Neel http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/04/29/attention-digital-peasants-the-iphone-is-coming/#comment-57397 Travis Neel Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:39:16 +0000 http://www.markevanstech.com/?p=3369#comment-57397 Yes, this is great news. I only hope that Apple can convince Rogers to offer a decent data plan. Cellular data charges are probably the only thing that's prevented me from by buying a an unlocked iPhone up to this point. Yes, this is great news. I only hope that Apple can convince Rogers to offer a decent data plan. Cellular data charges are probably the only thing that’s prevented me from by buying a an unlocked iPhone up to this point.

]]> By: mathewingram.com/work | iPhone Canada: Pay me now, or pay me later http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/04/29/attention-digital-peasants-the-iphone-is-coming/#comment-57357 mathewingram.com/work | iPhone Canada: Pay me now, or pay me later Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:09:02 +0000 http://www.markevanstech.com/?p=3369#comment-57357 [...] handset. If you have ever had a cellular data plan from Rogers, however, your heart probably leaped a little less high, and may even have let out a small sigh or shrugged its heart-shaped [...] [...] handset. If you have ever had a cellular data plan from Rogers, however, your heart probably leaped a little less high, and may even have let out a small sigh or shrugged its heart-shaped [...]

]]> By: Adrian Corscadden http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/04/29/attention-digital-peasants-the-iphone-is-coming/#comment-57323 Adrian Corscadden Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:34:21 +0000 http://www.markevanstech.com/?p=3369#comment-57323 about friggin time......that's all I have to say! about friggin time……that’s all I have to say!

]]> By: Ethan http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/04/29/attention-digital-peasants-the-iphone-is-coming/#comment-57282 Ethan Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:12:30 +0000 http://www.markevanstech.com/?p=3369#comment-57282 It seems like a good guess that they're getting the 3G iPhone so they can't divulge the date as a) they don't have it or b) Apple won't let them tell people what it is to keep the 3G phone launch under wraps. It seems like a good guess that they’re getting the 3G iPhone so they can’t divulge the date as a) they don’t have it or b) Apple won’t let them tell people what it is to keep the 3G phone launch under wraps.

]]> By: scottgee http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/04/29/attention-digital-peasants-the-iphone-is-coming/#comment-57280 scottgee Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:57:34 +0000 http://www.markevanstech.com/?p=3369#comment-57280 Their precious ARPU could be offset by volume. If they bring the monthly cost with unlimited data to level with the Bell/Telus/Rogers BlackBerry plan, Ted would cause a sea change in both consumer and business markets. This would have to wait until the enterprise/exchange support piece launches in June (fingers-crossed) I doubt there's an executive in Canada that wouldn't love flashing out an iPhone with exchange support in their next meeting. They currently have pissing matches with their BB models as it is. It's not going to happen, but it's likely their strongest move to shift the market. We all know the wireless market in Canada! Nobody ever makes a strong move. They are too comfortable in their warm and swaddling oligopoly. Data plans aside, this doesn't bode well for RIM. Web browsing on a BB is dismal at best, and complaints of "no physical keyboard" in the iPhone are niggling. I'm just as proficient typing on my Touch as I am on my BB and the Touch doesn't wake my spouse with a bubble-wrap popping of each key. My Touch lacks a phone and camera yet I find it as useful as my BB. Connect it to a cell network (aka the iPhone) and it's got the BB beat hands down! Apple-haters will grumble in denial, but those in want of a single device to rule them all know the iPhone is as close as we've come so far! Return to thumb twiddling, peasants! Their precious ARPU could be offset by volume. If they bring the monthly cost with unlimited data to level with the Bell/Telus/Rogers BlackBerry plan, Ted would cause a sea change in both consumer and business markets.

This would have to wait until the enterprise/exchange support piece launches in June (fingers-crossed) I doubt there’s an executive in Canada that wouldn’t love flashing out an iPhone with exchange support in their next meeting. They currently have pissing matches with their BB models as it is.

It’s not going to happen, but it’s likely their strongest move to shift the market. We all know the wireless market in Canada! Nobody ever makes a strong move. They are too comfortable in their warm and swaddling oligopoly.

Data plans aside, this doesn’t bode well for RIM. Web browsing on a BB is dismal at best, and complaints of “no physical keyboard” in the iPhone are niggling. I’m just as proficient typing on my Touch as I am on my BB and the Touch doesn’t wake my spouse with a bubble-wrap popping of each key. My Touch lacks a phone and camera yet I find it as useful as my BB. Connect it to a cell network (aka the iPhone) and it’s got the BB beat hands down!

Apple-haters will grumble in denial, but those in want of a single device to rule them all know the iPhone is as close as we’ve come so far!

Return to thumb twiddling, peasants!

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