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Steve Jobs wanted Apple to be a wireless carrier (WiFi)
Posted by: space-time
Date: November 16, 2011 08:30PM
Apple as a carrier?: Steve Jobs originally wanted Apple to be able to operate the iPhone without help from carriers. That’s what John Stanton, a venture capitalist and wireless industry veteran, told his audience at a Seattle speech Monday, IDG News reported.

According to Stanton, when Jobs was first percolating ideas about the handset from 2005-2007, he discussed the feasibility of going around carriers and using the unlicensed spectrum that WiFi networks rely on for the phones.

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Re: Steve Jobs wanted Apple to be a wireless carrier (WiFi)
Posted by: testcase
Date: November 16, 2011 09:02PM
Sounds impossible but, if anyone could have pulled it off, Steve would have been the man. boink smiley
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Re: Steve Jobs wanted Apple to be a wireless carrier (WiFi)
Posted by: rgG
Date: November 16, 2011 09:11PM
I always suspected that was what he wanted but realized that it was impractical, even for him.




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Re: Steve Jobs wanted Apple to be a wireless carrier (WiFi)
Posted by: zero
Date: November 16, 2011 10:09PM
Old news
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