Apple Tablet to Support Multiple Wireless Carriers Including Verizon?
This would mean that customers will be able to choose from a number of mobile providers for their Tablet's data service when not near a Wi-Fi hotspot. This would allow Tablet users to browse the web, check their email, and more wherever there was 3G service. Such connectivity is taken for granted on mobile phones such as the iPhone, but is increasingly expected for other mobile devices.
iPhone owners in the U.S., however, are presently restricted to AT&T service only due to exclusivity agreements between Apple and AT&T which are expected to expire in mid 2010.
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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9143107/Apple_s_tablet_will_use_Verizon_s_3G_network_sources_say
From the story:
"The tablet will be supported by multiple [mobile] carriers," said Brian Marshall of Broadpoint AmTech, citing unnamed sources he said were close to the situation. "Verizon and others," he continued. "Definitely Verizon. I've been told that's a certainty."
If true, then I guess we'll all have an opportunity to trash Verizon's 3G data network this year, just as we did with AT&T using the iPhone over the past few. Perhaps that is what Brian Ullem, who heads emerging devices for Verizon Wireless, was concerned about when he said in 2009, "The Apple tablet, if it debuts as expected early next year, has the potential to be a disruptive product".
If true, then I guess we'll all have an opportunity to trash Verizon's 3G data network this year, just as we did with AT&T using the iPhone over the past few.
Hopefully not. I don't understand the mentality that overloading anyone's network is a good thing or something to aspire to (like those morons who tried to arrange what essentially was a DDoS attack on the network after AT&T's comments about data usage).
Im sure big V has veto power on any such plan if they don't like it.
No doubt - but should they decide not to carry Apple's iSlate would suggest to me they know, regardless of all the blue stuff in their "there's a map for that" ads, that their 3G data network is really no better than AT&T's. Besides, I would imagine it a rather hard business decision for Verizon for them not to want to get onboard with the iSlate. Just imagine the profits they could make with an iStale data package verses what they charge now for a smartphone.
Hopefully not. I don't understand the mentality that overloading anyone's network is a good thing or something to aspire to (like those morons who tried to arrange what essentially was a DDoS attack on the network after AT&T's comments about data usage).
Oops -- sorry. It was never my intention to even remotely suggest we all work together to bring a network down. I work in an IT department and my only aspirations and dreams of such stuff always involve nightmares (that is, yet another disaster recovery scenario that needs to be worked out). Anyway, all I meant to imply here was that given the unexpected problems AT&T encountered with the iPhone -- are the other 3G carriers up to the challenge with the iSlate.
If true, then I guess we'll all have an opportunity to trash Verizon's 3G data network this year, just as we did with AT&T using the iPhone over the past few.
Data network slowdown, perhaps. But it won't cause voice drops, as with AT&T.
Perhaps that is what Brian Ullem, who heads emerging devices for Verizon Wireless, was concerned about when he said in 2009, "The Apple tablet, if it debuts as expected early next year, has the potential to be a disruptive product".
In industry, "disruptive technology" means innovations that affect the market in unexpected ways. For example, handheld calculators were disruptive products.
I'll be content if it comes with dual radios allowing folks to choose either using a CDMA or GSM network; maybe even utilize CSIM/RUIM cards (if Verizon will support it).
As far as I'm aware (and I'm really only guessing here and assuming that Verizon works the same way as in NZ), Apple could easily add a RUIM slot but Verizon would be under no obligation to use it. My Nokia phone has the slot but there's no card in it and the phone works perfectly without it.
It could be useful for countries that do use the cards though (I think India does, for example).
In industry, "disruptive technology" means innovations that affect the market in unexpected ways. For example, handheld calculators were disruptive products.
Thanks for the Wikipedia link. After reading that article, seems to me as if it were stating the mission statement for Apple Inc. Of course, it's not - yet I still can't help believe that the term "disruptive innovation" is but an oxymoron. Me still thinks there is a deeper issues here.
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