December 5, 2012 at 3:51 pm
#779075
wakeflood
Participant
And as an aside to r/b’s note on corporate competition or lack thereof – you need only look so far as the Apple & ATT debacle to see that it applies entirely inside the corporate ecosystem as well as between public and private entities.
Jobs was so upset with their own shortsighted decision to grant sole iphone rights to ATT after their total service hose-up that he pondered everything short of buying ATT and blowing it up.
He pinned their reputation on another entity that knew they had Apple locked in and over a barrel for at least the contract period.
Like I always say, as soon as you hear the words “consumer choice” or “consumer value” coming from a corporation, check your wallet…