“So The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Sprint was so desperate to get the iPhone now that AT&T’s exclusivity deal is up, they actually bet the future of their company on it: they’ve placed an order for over $20 billion in iPhone sales over the next four years,” John Brownlee writes for Cult of Mac.
“Look, this is just stupid, and we think BGR’s out of their gourds to seriously posit this, ‘impeccable source’ or no,” Brownlee writes. “We seriously doubt that Apple is going to give the third-place wireless carrier their high-end, ultra-new and futuristic iPhone 5: that’s just madness.”
Brownlee writes, “Even if Sprint did demand an exclusive on the device, what possible negotiating position could they have to spur Apple to piss off their other carrier partners so badly. Third, as we keep on saying, there’s no supply chain evidence for the iPhone 5. None.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
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