“Glenn Lurie knows Silicon Valley better than most telecom industry types. As AT&T’s point man on the iPhone, he was the guy who camped out in Cupertino and hashed out the blockbuster iPhone launch with Apple,” Jon Fortt reports for Fortune.
“To hear Lurie tell it, AT&T’s next hit phone might not be a phone at all, but a netbook with built-in Internet access that works anywhere you can get a cell signal,” Fortt reports. “Get ready for the clincher: Sign up for a two-year contract, and you might get your new PC for $99 or less… The upshot is that the ‘free phone’ phenomenon that helped make handsets ubiquitous in the U.S. isn’t just for phones anymore.”
“What about Apple? Lurie won’t offer specifics of course, but during our chat he mentions that he just sat down with Apple Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook a few minutes earlier,” Fortt reports. “Will AT&T ever sell a discounted MacBook? ‘We’re having conversations with lots of folks,’ Lurie says. ‘I would very much like to do more business with Apple, and hope that we do.'”
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[Attribution: Cult of Mac. Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Brawndo Drinker” for the heads up.]
