The death of Wimax 4G

[Q_Q]

Originally Posted by gTen

Your missing the point...who care about the want factor...we have to remember sprint is NOT here to sell handsets..they are here to sell contracts...By not having EVOs in stock they've literally lost millions of dollars..not only that they also lost a lot of the 4g advantage they had on the other carriers. Aka from a business perspective its a complete failure.

What point?
I'm not here to critique Sprint. Do I want to do well..well in a sense to offer competition to lower costs for consumers overall - yes.
But at the end of the day, I could give a bee what their strategies are.
I adapt & overcome the prevailing market conditions as a consumer.

As a consumer, I had other choices, wether 4G or not when the EVO came out.
So it's on me whether I lathered up for the EVO or not at that time.
Esp. when Verizon had droid choices & SPCS's own 4G network was not up to snuff.

I see too many people trying to be business critics base on misguided persona phone wants & forgetting where they are in the food chain.

[gTen]

Originally Posted by Q_Q

What point?
I'm not here to critique Sprint. Do I want to do well..well in a sense to offer competition to lower costs for consumers overall - yes.
But at the end of the day, I could give a bee what their strategies are.
I adapt & overcome the prevailing market conditions as a consumer.

As a consumer, I had other choices, wether 4G or not when the EVO came out.
So it's on me whether I lathered up for the EVO or not at that time.
Esp. when Verizon had droid choices & SPCS's own 4G network was not up to snuff.

I see too many people trying to be business critics base on misguided persona phone wants & forgetting where they are in the food chain.

The thread is about the "death of wimax" last I checked >.>...the mistake sprint made was obvious as HTC ALWAYS had supply issues..you have to remember that the invested BILLIONS into wimax...I'm not saying sprint should not have released the EVO or etc.I'm saying that if you got billions at stake and your entire company..you should make sure your suppliers can keep up with the demand, if not, get suppliers that can. If they chose to release 2 4g phones instead of one..it would have spread the demand in between the 2 phones...but instead they were too focused on the iphone rather then ding whats best for their business.

[jimmy82]

They need to make wimax available in more markets. I do agree that more EVOs should be available, but at the same time like the exclusivity.

[obamaftw08]

This article is now moot.

EDITOR'S NOTE: This article, which originated from our partner site Infoworld, contains serious factual errors. Sprint has not said it will abandon its WiMax partnership with Clearwire, and Sprint has two WiMax phones, not one--the EVO 4G and the Epic 4G. We regret publishing these errors.

Move along.

[gTen]

Originally Posted by obamaftw08

This article is now moot.

EDITOR'S NOTE: This article, which originated from our partner site Infoworld, contains serious factual errors. Sprint has not said it will abandon its WiMax partnership with Clearwire, and Sprint has two WiMax phones, not one--the EVO 4G and the Epic 4G. We regret publishing these errors.

Move along.

IT was obvious because before sprint said they will do TD-LTE and wimax at the same time..but either way..it does not change that sprint is killing wimax from a business perspective.

[eenieMINI]

Originally Posted by obamaftw08

This article is now moot.

EDITOR'S NOTE: This article, which originated from our partner site Infoworld, contains serious factual errors. Sprint has not said it will abandon its WiMax partnership with Clearwire, and Sprint has two WiMax phones, not one--the EVO 4G and the Epic 4G. We regret publishing these errors.

Move along.

And with that we can close shop and do the why $10/4g/eve argument for the thread with that topic.
Nite all!
eenie