– “the only Canadian cellphone company technically compatible with the new gadget” (refering to Rogers) Um, what? The only iPhone feature that requires carrier “cooperation” is the visual message center, which any carrier can, technically, install. It is at the service level, so in their server centers, and not a network feature (meaning no work required on antennas etc)

– “This isn’t just about people sending their siblings snapshots of their kids, as in the TV ads for iPhone. There are significant productivity aspects to mobile access for business.” Classic example of the ridiculous mobile culture here. I venture that not only is it far far far more *important* for most people to send photos of their loved ones to each other than so-called “business applications, but also those people *would do more of it if the rates were reasonable*. Hello carriers!! Get your heads out of your asses and look at what is going on in the US, Australia, Europe, the world.

Mobile communication is NOT (just) a business application, a corportae expense. It is about people communciating. And by extorting corporations, they are missing the much much much larger market of “normal” people.

end rant. ;)