{"id":191,"date":"2009-06-16T09:30:59","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T16:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/?p=191"},"modified":"2009-06-16T09:30:59","modified_gmt":"2009-06-16T16:30:59","slug":"congress-looking-at-cell-phone-exclusivity-arrangements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/16\/congress-looking-at-cell-phone-exclusivity-arrangements\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Looking at Cell Phone Exclusivity Arrangements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I first saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eweek.com\/c\/a\/Mobile-and-Wireless\/Senators-Question-iPhone-Type-Deals-With-Carriers-888425\/?kc=rss\">this headline<\/a>, I thought to myself, \u201cIt\u2019s high time someone looked into these arrangements!\u201d But the truth is it\u2019s these types of arrangements that inspire change and advancement in technology. It\u2019s a love\/hate relationship. This exclusive arrangement is what enticed at&#038;t to give Apple what they needed to re-invent the cell phone. <\/p>\n<p>The fact of the matter is, without an exclusive arrangement between Apple and at&#038;t, we would almost certainly not have the iPhone that we have today.  If Apple would have been blocked from making such an arrangement, at&#038;t would have never let Apple have the type of control needed in order to produce the jesus-phone.<\/p>\n<p>I can go ahead and cry that I\u2019m stuck with at&#038;t for 2 years, but truth be told, I\u2019ve had nothing but good service with my iPhone itself. I knew coming in that I would not have MMS, but that is coming around the corner. I knew coming in that I would have to pay a little bit more than equivalent data plans, yet I still chose to get an iPhone.  I think requiring a new 2-year contract for my son, so that he could use my original, unsubsidized iPhone is a pure stupidity. At&#038;t blames Apple for this because of the way the iPhone is activated.<\/p>\n<p>So yes, exclusivity arrangements are evil, and I\u2019ll be the first one to jump ship to another carrier once I can, but I do understand why it was necessary to have this type of arrangement. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first saw this headline, I thought to myself, \u201cIt\u2019s high time someone looked into these arrangements!\u201d But the truth is it\u2019s these types of arrangements that inspire change and advancement in technology. It\u2019s a love\/hate relationship. This exclusive arrangement is what enticed at&#038;t to give Apple what they needed to re-invent the cell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[162,37,163,17,97],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iphone","tag-apple","tag-att","tag-iphone","tag-opinion","tag-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}