Oh please. The only thing AT&T is concerned about is the SIM unlock hack. They want the iPhone usable only on their network in the USA per the business contract with Apple. They are giving Apple a cut of the monthly Voice and Data service fees for this exclusivity. There is no evidence to suggest AT&T receives any cut of iTunes sales from iPhone users.
As it stands, Apple rakes in ALL revenues from any iTunes purchase (music, video, ringtones, official web applications, etc). Apple is the one with a vested interest in breaking homebrew applications and preventing users from installing their own ringtones.
Apple wants EVERYTHING installed via iTunes in order to make money off their iPhone customers. I cannot understand why some of you die-hards cannot accept the fact that Apple as a publicly traded corporate entity answerable to their shareholders would not try to get as much money as possible from their customers this way.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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@ ryantrevisol : "This smells of AT&T."
Oh please. The only thing AT&T is concerned about is the SIM unlock hack. They want the iPhone usable only on their network in the USA per the business contract with Apple. They are giving Apple a cut of the monthly Voice and Data service fees for this exclusivity. There is no evidence to suggest AT&T receives any cut of iTunes sales from iPhone users.
As it stands, Apple rakes in ALL revenues from any iTunes purchase (music, video, ringtones, official web applications, etc). Apple is the one with a vested interest in breaking homebrew applications and preventing users from installing their own ringtones.
Apple wants EVERYTHING installed via iTunes in order to make money off their iPhone customers. I cannot understand why some of you die-hards cannot accept the fact that Apple as a publicly traded corporate entity answerable to their shareholders would not try to get as much money as possible from their customers this way.