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Saturday, July 23, 2011

Great article on Sprint last evening

I wasn't looking for one but saw a terrific article on Sprint last evening, asking one simple question: "Why Is There No Sprint iPhone? Which got me wondering, naturally. So read it I did and it was brief, incisive and helpful and now I know. (If you're curious, go check it out. Link at bottom, as usual). But in the meantime, check out their reason number two for why there isn't any Sprint iPhone: "Apple disdains Sprint. Apple execs tend to have personal feelings about U.S. wireless carriers that they don't have about international carriers. For Apple, brand is everything, and the company doesn't want to be associated with brands it sees as "losers." it wants to be a winner, associated with winners. This has worked well for Apple in the past. Apple execs could simply see Sprint and T-Mobile as hopeless loser carriers headed towards extinction, and not worth the company's time." Yeah. Ouch. That's got to hurt. And it can't portend well for our hometown phone company. Hopefully they can turn that ship around. We keep hoping, don't we? Link: http://news.yahoo.com/why-no-sprint-iphone-114941806.html

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