{"id":11916,"date":"2014-11-05T16:36:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T00:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/?p=11916"},"modified":"2014-11-05T16:36:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T00:36:00","slug":"wrong-analogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2014\/11\/05\/wrong-analogy\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrong Analogy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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MCX CEO Dekkers Davidson told The Verge regarding CurrentC exclusivity:<\/p>\n

I would observe parenthetically that I don’t think too many people complained when Apple went to market with the exclusive that you could only buy it at AT&T, which was the case for a while, and I think that was a reasonable business decision that Apple made, and they did what was in their best interest, and while Verizon customers may have been disappointed, they has made a choice as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s a wrong analogy, Dek!<\/p>\n

Sure, when\u00a0iPhone was first launched, it became an AT&T exclusive in the United States\u00a0until January 2011<\/a>. But AT&T did not stop selling other phones.<\/p>\n

At this point, it is hard to believe any statements from MCX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MCX CEO Dekkers Davidson told The Verge regarding CurrentC exclusivity: I would observe parenthetically that I don’t think too many people complained when Apple went to market with the exclusive that you could only buy it at AT&T, which was the case for a while, and I think that was a reasonable business decision that … <\/p>\n

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