AT&T Fighting to Keep the iPhone Locked Down Until 2011
AT&T Fighting to Keep the iPhone Locked Down Until 2011
Posted 04/15/2009 at 6:37am
| by Paul Lilly
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If you've been eyeing the iPhone ever since it came out but have been reluctant to switch from your cellular service provider to AT&T, then you may want to rethink that approach. That's because AT&T, who struck gold when it inked a deal with Apple to be the exclusive iPhone carrier, is in discussions to extend its contract until 2011, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
When asked to comment on the talks, an Apple spokeswoman offered little other information, saying only "We have a great relationship with AT&T."
And vice versa. According to AT&T, it has added 4.3 million iPhone subscribers in the second half of 2008, many of which -- about 40 percent -- were new to AT&T. But if AT&T is going to secure exclusivity rights to the iPhone for at least a year after its initial deal comes to an end, it's going to have to make sense for Apple as well, who will face increased pressure from Google's Android platform as the open-source OS starts to spread beyond T-Mobile's G1. And with Android 1.5 adding a bevy of new features, things could get awfully interesting in round 2.
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comptech08
April 15, 2009 at 12:23pm
Does it matter much if the iphone stays exclusive with At&t? I mean if somebody wants to use it on another network they are able to.
Tekzel
April 15, 2009 at 11:33am
Well, I personaly think that AT&T make wonderful partners, and they should remain closely connected. In fact, they could be considered soul mates. They are both companies that have a full product line that I have less than no use for, and generally find banned from my home. There is one minor exception, Quicktime player. I grudgingly allow that one to exist here, but only because I haven't found a good alternative. Ok, I haven't really looked. But other than that, both AT&T and Apple will forever remain other folks problems to me.
FrancesTheMute
April 15, 2009 at 12:23pm
check out Quicktime Alternative. They also have a Real Player Alternative as well.
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/quicktime_alternative.htm
i'm not an apple fanboy by any stretch, but I do love my iphone. easily the best phone I've ever had.
Tekzel
April 15, 2009 at 12:57pm
Thanks for that reply, although I have heard of this, I never bothered to try it. After reading your reply I decided to go ahead and do it and wow, that is awesome. I should have gotten that a loooong time ago! haha
MAJORzer0
April 15, 2009 at 11:27pm
If it's just a codec issue do what I've done for the last year or so and install a codec pack. I use KLM Codec. It works for more then just apple junk. If you're offline and need to play a movie or what ever but your player doesn't have the codec the pack will auto load it for you. So you don't get that stupid error message. I still get it sometimes but that's because media player is retarded and wants to try and download it when I'm not online. I just click ok and KLM loads the codec and plays the movie.
If it's a player issue try VLC. It plays everything.
~No one said it would be easy....they just said it was worth it...~
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