Apple’s iPhone is coming to Australia, according to 9 to 5 Mac.
9 to 5 Mac reports, “Sensis, the search engine division of Telstra (Australia’s largest mobile carrier), is hiring an iPhone developer to put its Australia-only search engine on the iPhone.”
Full article, with the job posting, here.
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Didn’t I see that information on the Walmart site several hours ago?
There is another report in MacWorld (UK) that Apple is building three Apple stores in Oz.
Someone down under watched that SDK demonstration.
iPhone 2.0.
Is that just the OS with the ability to add APPLE APPROVED, 3rd party apps? Are there any new features in iPhone 2.0? Can the best platform for mobile computing do copy and paste under iPhone 2.0? Is “iPhone 2.0” hardware or just software or what? Will I be able to access the vast amount of media on the web that I can access with a $100 phone under iPhone 2.0 or will Apple block any developer that tries to let me hear a WMV file, for instance? What is this iPhone 2.0 you speak of?
Don’t get me wrong, the possibility of new applications is exciting, but I’m at least a bit wary of Apple’s new Microsoft like behavior with regard to being in control of everything, and I keep hearing “iPhone 2.0” but that seems to be nothing more than 3rd party apps.
WTF??? What about Canada?
Canada should be excited because iPhone 2.0 includes tight integration with Microsoft Exchange.
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I guess that means that quite a few potential users will go for the unlocked version, or wait until exclusivity expires, or even settle for the touch and wifi. Unlike AT&T;, there’s no evidence so far that Telstra would part with its deceptive marketing practices.
Wait for the plan. The fine print, I mean.
Apple will come to Canada with the 3G iPhone and not before that.
3G puts Telus and Bell in a bidding war for iPhone and keeps the greedy Rogers out of the picture. With Telus or Bell, Apple will get the terms that are right for iPhone deployment.
@Big Al
Do you mean it won’t be only a GSM iPhone?
As Tommy Boy says, I think this is more about the SDK than who’s getting the iPhone. Sensis do a Dashboard widget too.
The headline is at odds with the snippet of the story. Just because a department of Telstra is looking to iPhone-ise one of its sites doesn’t mean Telstra will get to be the carrier. And I bloody hope they aren’t given the overpriced plans and shit service they have been peddling over the years.
Old Joe,
You expect all of a sudden that Telstra will become a good corporate citizen just because of the iphone. No, they’ll do what they always do, overcharge (and sometimes illegally), treat customers like crap and and then pay exorbitant amounts to senior executives and justify the payments on some obscure set of benchmarks that were invented by the same executives.
Now I don’t know how many times I’ve complained about Telstra becoming the iphone carrier, all to no avail. I refuse point blank to have anything more to do with this a virtual monopoly player, that has the empathy of a of a Burmese general. If Telstra is the sole provider of the iphone then Apple can shove their product up their Cupertino arses.
Go on flame me over this, I don’t give a damn and that’s the way many Australians feel about Telstra…especially those in the country who are forced to use the company’s services.
Water Chillum: Hey mate, I know how you feel. But don’t worry, we can always unlock it and use other carriers
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As you said, everyone here knows Telstra SVCK BIG TIME!
Walter Chillum, re-read what I actually wrote; it’s not what you thought I wrote
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The iPhone on Telstra would be like trying to bind pure good to pure evil. Telstra have been allowed to get away with far too much screwing of the customer (and infrastructure) for far too long. It looks like this government might have a bit more of an effect in changing them for the benefit of people.
Old Joe,
My reply to your post was in the first paragraph. The rest was pure antipathy to Telstra. I should have highlighted that in my post. However I wouldn’t even bother hoping that they’ll change.
As for the new government’s response to Telstra I don’t expect anything will really change unless the carrier is broken up like they did to the Bell Telephone Company in the Unites States. You don’t privatise a virtual monopoly, you break it up to even out the playing field. I have yet to hear anything like that from the Rudd government.
Telstra sux … big time, no bout adout it!!!
I hope Optus get it, Telstra sux, plus, taking into consideration Optus’ marketing ties with Disney.
Optus, the No 2 telco here in Oz is owned by SingTel via Temasek Holdings, an investment company owned by the Government of Singapore.
Money talks.
Besides, did I mention that Telstra sux.
i hope vodafone get it. even though their accounts receivable department couldn’t send a bill to save themselves. Or, perhaps, because of that.
mdn mw: “why”… as in, telstra being exclusive carrier of the iphone is the only reason why i wouldn’t get one.