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AT&T man Iphone leak knocks him off Steve Jobs top folk
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson is off Apple Messiah Steve Jobs' Christmas Card list after leaking details of a 3G iPhone to the great unwashed.
Jobs' likes to whip his fans into a frenzy over such announcements with a 'secret press conference' where only a few tame hacks are invited but almost every magazine reports. His other favoured method is a major Apple event where fanboys bray their joy at the release of a Jobs' burp like a herd of rutting donkeys.
However Stephenson seems not to have got the memo about hyping the iPhone and doing what Cappercino ordered. He was just chatting to some hacks about a 3G iPhone and just bluntly told them that punters will be able to buy one next year.
He didn't mention a price, that will be handed down on paisley tablets of stone from the hands of the polo necked one himself.
Even Apple fanboys have had to admit that running the iPhone on Edge technology is like watching plaster dry in a basement conversion.
However Apple has not been talking about a 3G phone because it will put people off buying the edge version.
Greg Sterling, principal analyst with Sterling Marketing Intelligence told AP that Stephenson's off the cuff remark would be regrettable from Apple's point of view.
But Sterling makes an interesting comment that Stephenson might have been trying to get one over on Jobs who has been calling the shots on the iPhone since day one.
He said that while AT&T has made good money by being the exclusive carrier, they have suffered from poor PR. The iPhone is not associated with AT &T other than the fact that punters are trying to escape its network with various hacks.
Sterling suggested that in such a scenario there may be some tension between Stephenson and Jobs.
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I sure that iPhone is not selling well in Europe, due to the obvious fact that Europeans are given an informed choice when picking a mobile telecom.

Why the iPhone doesn't have, at the very least, the same feature set as a Nokia N95 is beyond me.

In America, the land of free enterprise, the regulator (FCC) has acted to champion a few mega-corps, while ignoring their duty to the general public. In Europe, there is an actual Competition Minister, and even if the EU is not doing the best job possible, at least it frustrates the megalomaniacs in telecom.

The U.S. has no mechanism for ensuring competition. So we get cartels and vendor lock-in. Hooray for Liberty!
Steve Jobs announced there would be a 3G iPhone when he announced the edge version. The world has known about this for ages. 

Didn't you know?
So how is the iPhone doing in Europe, really? It seems to be a product primarily designed for a market which isn't very clued up about cell phones--such as the USA.