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The iPhone's a pretty crappy apples:apples example, because a huge part of its functionality was outside Apple's control -- a usable cellular data plan.

And, from memory, only came about because Apple was Apple and could say "We don't care that you're AT&T. Create this plan for us or your customers won't be able to get an iPhone."



And it probably worked because it wasn’t even AT&T at that point. It was Cingular before AT&T bought them.




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