“The most hyped consumer electronics device in years will make its debut on June 29, but Apple Inc.’s iPhone will be conspicuously absent from Canadian store shelves. Sold out? No — just not for sale,” Catherine McLean reports for The Globe and Mail Update.
“The creator of the iPod and Macintosh is focusing on rolling out its latest gadget, a sleek cellphone, in the United States. Other markets will follow, though Apple hasn’t divulged any launch dates,” McLean reports.
“What’s becoming clear is Canadians who want to shell out more than $500 for their own iPhone will have to wait some time for the chance,” McLean reports.
McLean reports, “A likely supplier in Canada, Rogers Communications Inc. [RCI.B-T], recently admitted little was happening on that front. ‘The truth is we aren’t very far with Apple,’ Bill Linton, Rogers’ chief financial officer, told a conference last month. ‘They’re concentrating on this launch and the U.S., and when they decide to turn their mind to other markets, we’ll be in line.'”
Full article here.
It’s becoming clear? Apple has said from the device’s unveiling on January 9, 2007 that “iPhone will be available in the US in June 2007, Europe in late 2007, and Asia in 2008.” Last time we checked, Canada wasn’t part of the U.S. (yet… eh, just kidding Canucks). Well, The Globe and Mail needed some iPhone-related thing to write about, we guess. Our best guess for Canadian release is around the Europe launch time frame.
The good news is that the Canadian currency is climbing relative to the US peso. We’ll get the iphone for less in the fall than we would have now. Unfortunately, we are greedy and want it now as well.
MW= Cent as in my 2 cents worth!
Now we wouldn’t want Canuckistani demand to cause shortages in the U.S.A, would we? Canuckasas rebuffed us in 1775 and this is the price they’ll have to pay for refusing to join in our glorious little rebellion.
you can keep your glorious little rebellion if you vote in another nut job like Bush again. seriously, some of you folks need some counseling.
Hey Tommy Boy, just remember that Canada kicked your ass in the only war the two countries ever fought against each other!
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For those of you that don’t know your history, that would be the War of 1812.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_1812
MW = police, as in don’t make me call them to keep order here!
Bush is horrible but Harper is pretty bad too. Not Bush level bad but bad.
Some folks even argue that Canada isn’t part of America. The same folks insist that South America refers to Texas, not that other place with the rain forests and big cats which sometimes inspire names for operating systems.
I always thought of Canada as the 51st state and Mexico the 52nd.
Future political geography of the United States & Canada (and pretty much the geographical distribution of thought patterns and intelligence levels right now):
That greyed-out area is Quebec. It will simply cease to exist.
Canada’s mobile carriers are controlling and want a better deal with Apple and don’t want to give up control.
There’s a lack of competition in the marketplace, so even if we did get it we’d be paying through the nose for data…. and given that the iPhone is data-centred, you can see why the mobile carriers have dollar signs in their eyes… or will have once they see the US launch… and then… they (hopefully will capitulate)
Canada has cell phone coverage problems because of the paucity of population in certain areas, such that ONStar, for example, is useless in much of the Laurentians north of Montreal. The population distribution is skewed to the six largest cities, making cost effective coverage problematic and non existent in much of the country. Even so, people are asking about the iPhone in Bell and Rogers outlets, whether they can dial out or not. But Apple has to produce French language sales material to address the Canadian market, which makes it more expensive to operate and puts Canada down the priority list. Plus it will take a few months to satisfy the U.S. market.
They wouldn’t have these issues if they would just lay down and be our 51st state.
Very true Andy C.
Thus giving rise to the current name for the presidential home “The White House” as it was burned down along with the U.S. Treasury, Capitol, and other public buildings in the burning of Washington.
Just think if it weren’t for Canada we they would likely be calling something like “The Haliburton Center” since it is clearly owned by big oil currently.
vive le Québec libre!!!
> vive le Québec libre!!!
Yeah good luck with that.
I love Canada. Rafting the Kicking Horse River after a big spring melt is maybe the most fun I’ve ever had.
That’s ‘spring’ melt, Peterson. Not ‘patty.’
Don’t forget about unlocked iPhones
http://www.puremobile.com/Apple/Apple-iPhone-Black-GSM-Phone/
Note: no shipping date yet.
Scoble mentioned in his blog that he got a N95 from these guys, but that’s all I know about them.
(they only list Canada and the U.S., presumably because they don’t ship overseas but it should work everywhere, albeit at 2.5g rates. The speedy 3g version, I expect, will come with the Euro version).
But be careful about data rates, Canadian rates are particularly regressive, generally – no decent unlimited flat rate monthly plan like AT&T, yet. Hopefully Apple will get a good deal on rates, finally like Fido did with HipTop.
Plus, an unlocked phone won’t have that cool AT&T server based voice mail program.
There is also plan B: go to the U.S., get an AT&T phone and pay roaming. This might not be as crazy expensive as it sounds if you primarily use Airport.
After the ecological and economic downfall of the fascist U.S. and much of cow-towing “red” Canada (read China calling in it’s debt and devastating fires and floods doing the rest) a Greater Québec, with the respectful help of it’s half brothers the first nations, will rise out of the rock solid shield it was founded upon and claim back the continent and meld a new confederation, one that is based on sharing and respecting the land and it’s resources not a murderous imperial agenda. Put THAT in your racist pipes and smoke it.
Thank god those commie low lives will have to wait. F them!
1. “will rise out of the rock solid shield it was founded upon and claim back the continent and meld a new confederation”
Read: We will have a violent uprising, but when we kill and conquer, it”s ok. Melding, schmelding. When you do, it’s fascism. When we do it, it’s um… gentle persuasion. Because we’re right.
2. “one that is based on sharing and respecting the land and it’s [sic] resources not a murderous imperial agenda”
Read: One that is based on my version of justice where no one can have more than I do. None of us have any idea how to feed millions of people, so they must die. None of us know how to create things on a large scale, so they must die. Nonje of us truly know what ‘imperial’ means, or how to correctly identify demagoguery. So… um, they must die. Who’s they again? Oh, yeah: not like me.
3. Put THAT in your racist pipes and smoke it.”
Read: I am just as prejudicial, I just use my opinions regarding my infantile understanding of politics and human behavior. The rub, though is that if you are not on my side, you must be stopped. At some point, my ideals are more valuable than yours. As such, I will defend my ideals, perhaps to the death (please refer to numbers 1 and 2 above).
I propose we line up at the Apple Eaton Centre store in TZero on the 29th anyways just to send Apple and rogers a message – WE WANT OUR IPHONES. – Now that would get some media attention from the Globe & Mail- line up for a product that’s not even available.
If Rogers keeps stalling (threats from RIM Crackberry I’m sure) AT&T will be getting lots of Canadian customers who will use a US address to activate the iphone – likely cheaper than using Canadian carriers anyways. Who doesn’t have a friend or relative in the US of A?
Actually Harper is doing an incredible job. Comparing him to Bush is like saying Steve Jobs is as bad as Bill Gates. Please.
Handling a minority government where you need majority support on all important votes in the House of Commons takes mastery to stay in power this long….you need to keep everyone happy. Remarkable. And incredibly more moral than the Liberals. The NDP would be happy to run Canada as a communist state.
Anyone who votes for that putz Dion needs their head examined.
Having said all that, Go Canada!!!! I want to watch our Canadian Junior Hockey team win another GOLD at the WJHC on my iPhone!!!!
I know Mexico isn’t part of the U.S. though a big part of our country is over there. However, I droolling for an iPhone. Can’t wait…