“After the one-two punch of announcements of iPhone availability in the U.K. and Germany last week, every Apple enthusiast fully expected Steve Jobs to make a public announcement at this week’s Apple Expo in Paris of a deal with French cellphone provider Orange. He did not,” David Zeiler blogs for The Baltimore Sun.
“It’s crazy. Last Friday Didier Lombard, chief executive of France Télécom (which owns Orange) told a reporter a trade show in Vietnam that Orange had made a deal with Apple, which many media outlets reported. But Apple never said a word,” Zeiler reports.
“In all likelihood details of the deal are still being worked out – but for Apple to let such an obvious PR opportunity slip by is completely out of character… Then again, perhaps the two parties have reached an agreement but Jobs wanted to wait a few weeks before announcing it in order to gin up more free publicity for the iPhone after the current chatter has died down,” Zeiler reports.
Full article here.
Reuters also has a report saying that “France Telecom and Apple are struggling to come to an agreement on the distribution of the U.S. group’s iPhone in France,” here.
“I phart in yer ghenerahl di-reck-shun! Yer mudder was a hanpster, andt yer fadder smelt of eldiberries!”
The Coneheads need iPhones too.
Hey, if a 1 year old can use an iPhone, certainly frogs can too.
France’s iPhones are being reprogrammed by hundreds of albino monks under the Louvre. Sacrebleu!
A little Orange pr to push Apple perhaps! Didn’t work.
Hey Pierre,
I know that you think that you started Le Internet with Minitel, but that was so last millenium. Get with it, the iPhone is NOW!
(Vive Le France.)
magic word : “friends” — why can’t we be . . .
It’s like Apples and Oranges – no comparision…
obviously something was lost in the translation from French to English, and then back again.
The French get their own iPhone button. It’s an icon of a pyramid with a glowing eye on top.
Pressing it puts you on Spielberg’s list of extras for his next crappy film.
No Soup for you!
I said it before, and I’ll say it again:
The French do not deserve the iPhone.
Umm, when is MacWorld Paris?
The article’s last point is probably most accurate. Space out the announcements for longer lasting PR coverage.
@ No Squirt For You: “he French get their own iPhone button. It’s an icon of a pyramid with a glowing eye on top.
Pressing it puts you on Spielberg’s list of extras for his next crappy film.”
Have you not ever looked at the back of a one dollar bill? whose symbol is the pyramid and eye?
It seems to me the Steve/Apple are not too happy to have their ‘thunder” spoiled by someone else. They may have already cancelled their deal with Orange in favour of someone else.
Do you folks have to be so racist and self centered, it puts me of reading the comments.
If you low life recists / nationalist were a bit more tolerant of others it would be far better world to live in.
Grow up or fuck of down some hole where you belong. You give Mac users the world over a bad name
>>>SoundScene :
Le Internet
(Vive Le France.)
Nice. Two misspelling in five words.
Comme on dit chez moi, “en progrès mais peut mieux faire”, Toto ^^
@Hugo
It’s called Humor. Look it up.
Also, please learn to spell, or learn to use the spell check before you post. You make school teachers look bad in your home country.
But I’ll say it now:
Hugo does not deserve an iPhone.
When the French iPhone does finally come out, instead of informing you that a “call failed”, it will say “I surrender!”
cptnkirk: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_Providence
It’s all part of the conspiracy.
I have a sense of humor, however racism does not feature in it. The comment that it (racism) is humor is simply a way of justifying and normalizing unacceptable views and opinions.
By the way Mr Avenger, your obsession with spelling makes me think you are a teacher (no luck) or an inspector with the spelling police, which is equally sad, get a life
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H,
oops did i spell that H incorrectly lol
Seems that someone stoll my name … un Américain volant un Français ???? Naaaaaaaaaaaaan, je dois rêver, MDR
HueyLong : My point was only this : if you want to be a racist asshole, do it in your own language. Making misspelling in a foreign language makes you sounds twice more stupid.
As long as it is actually funny, yes.
But it’d better be funny – none of this “joke to force my morals on you” crap.
Give it your best shot.
Mr Avenger
You sound stupid enough for all of us. Oh and the spelling shit is getting boring now 🙁
How grammatically correct is :
‘ Making misspelling in a foreign language’
H
“Making misspelling in a foreign language makes you sounds twice more stupid”
There we a dozen different hilarious things I could have said about this statement. But I finally decided it’s a hoot all on it’s own.