http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/10/06/iphone-delayed-in-france-due-to-unlocking-laws/ Engadget Mobile Comments for iPhone delayed in France due to unlocking laws? http://www.engadgetmobile.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadgetmobile.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/10/06/iphone-delayed-in-france-due-to-unlocking-laws/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/10/06/iphone-delayed-in-france-due-to-unlocking-laws/Oct 6th 2007 12:58PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/10/06/iphone-delayed-in-france-due-to-unlocking-laws/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/10/06/iphone-delayed-in-france-due-to-unlocking-laws/1st problem: how do you specify the price of the locked and the "unlocked" (non-Orange) version?
2nd: Apparently Apple has demanded 30% of the calling revenues acquired by iPhone users from Orange. How can they claim that if the iPhone can be used with any carrier? Obviously they can't.
3rd: a parallel WORLD market of unlocked iPhones will be set up in France where Apple will no longer be able to guarantee "specific network-locked" iPhones, and from there they will be distributed all around the world, making ruins out of Apple's expectations to receive "air-time" premiums (actually percentages) and capitalizing from every carrier that distributes iPhone around the world.]]>Oct 6th 2007 5:53PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/10/06/iphone-delayed-in-france-due-to-unlocking-laws/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/10/06/iphone-delayed-in-france-due-to-unlocking-laws/
but obviously, if they want 1000+ per iphone in revenues they couldn't just have sticked a 1k price sticker and expected anyone to buy it.

real kicker for finland though is that you can only sell 3g phones tied to network deals(used to be that you couldn't tie anything to a network sub). also goes for any other small country, apple unlikely to even enter those markets if they want to keep the exclusivity/revenue share model... (not that there is a lot to share in properly competed markets anyhow)

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DISCLAIMER.

EVER.]]>Oct 6th 2007 7:13PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/10/06/iphone-delayed-in-france-due-to-unlocking-laws/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/10/06/iphone-delayed-in-france-due-to-unlocking-laws/MOBILE PHONE LAWS.
EVER.]]>Oct 7th 2007 9:35PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/10/06/iphone-delayed-in-france-due-to-unlocking-laws/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/10/06/iphone-delayed-in-france-due-to-unlocking-laws/
OTOH, Italy, Germany, England, Aussieland and all of Euro *will* be sporting around their own iPhones.

Ha Ha!]]>Oct 8th 2007 12:11PM