Monday, August 17, 2009

Beyond iPhone?


Can it be that a good thing cannot last forever?


For AT&T the future appears to be one without the cozy partnership with Apple's iPhone. Despite making scads of money since the introduction of the iPhone, AT&T is looking beyond mobile phones for growth. That growth might include an electronic-book reader, a camera or another wireless media technology.


If the choice is to roll out an electronic reader, then the main competition will be Amazon's Kindle. It will be a bold new world for AT&T, however, the pairing with Apple was a risky, bold and innovative venture. Perhaps the pairing could remain solvent as electronic-book media technology could shape up to be the next iPhone.

1 comment:

  1. Yet here we are a year later... Apple made the iPhone better; At&t popularized iPhone, which i heard is going to be moving to Verizon; The Amazon Kindle now has a bit of a composition called the iPad from Apple corp.; and you ended it well by saying these changes bring more changes. But look how far we've come since last year about this time... very scary

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