Category: Verizon
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The iPhone Upgrade Program Would Pay for Itself, If Customers Could Switch to Pre-Paid Mobile
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe most significant part of the recent announcement of the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus was the introduction of the iPhone Upgrade Program. This is because it allows iPhone customers, for the first time, to lease unlocked iPhones directly from Apple, finance them through Apple1, and get away from the two-year subsidized…
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Apple iPhone Sales Too Low at Only 52,800 Per Day!
Reading Time: 4 minutesForgive the sarcasm implied by this post’s headline, but I cannot believe the reflexive way that the market reacts to quarterly results for companies that are lapping the field in their industry. Yesterday Apple reported sales and earnings for their fiscal third quarter that were fantastic. To use a phrase that some…
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Samsung Anti-Theft Proposal Reportedly Not Accepted by Leading Mobile Carriers
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe New York Times is reporting that AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint rejected Samsung’s proposal for a kill switch for network use of high end smartphones that have been stolen. According to the report on The Bits blog: … the carriers don’t think a so-called kill switch is the right way to…