This looks like classic Apple…
“A senior source at a mobile operator said: “Apple has long been trying to build closer and closer relationships and cut out the operators. But this time they have been sent back to the drawing board with their tails between their legs.”
I’ll translate it for you.
– A senior source with a large ego has bragged to a journalist friend that he got one over Apple.
– Apple had a meeting with a senior executive at a mobile operator where the executive pounded his fist on the table and said “I’ll never accept that on my network”.
– Apple left the room without comment and struck the mobile operator from their plans and carried on regardless.
What’s in this for you?
Executive probably works at Vodafone or O2. Sell your shares!
Apple’s not playing the same game as the others and the operators haven’t understood that yet.