[mbaseball3]

in a way I agree and would be ok with the 1 year exclusivity for a model phone. like the Iphone, att and all other carriers fight for the first year deal, then its up for grabs after that. same goes with that phones following gen change or what not. plus, I think it was dumb for apple to agree to one carrier only. from a business standpoint, if phone a is better than phone b, why not do all you can with phone a to blow phone b out of the water? if apple made carrier specific phones for more than one carrier, no doubt in my mind that apple iphone would be huge majority of purchased phones. most likely everyone would have one. better business for apple? maybe they didn't see it that way? or maybe they didn't want to deal with multiple carrier specific phones?