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jrowen on March 13, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Update from the CEO

Because the iPhone was an obvious money printing machine, so the carriers were willing to accept the inability to put their garbage on it.

thedragon4453 on March 15, 2013 [–]

No, not really actually. They went to several carriers and Cingular was the only one that would deal with what apple wanted, and that was reluctant.

Google could have pushed harder, but they miscalculated.

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