Apple downplays “mitten issue” in Canadian iPhone market
The rivulets of drool that have been trickling across our northern border should finally dry up in a few months — almost a year after the launch of Apple’s iPhone in the U.S., the touch-sensitive lust object is coming to Canada. Rogers Telecom, the only carrier in the Great White North compatible with the phone, announced today … well, here’s the release in full: “We’re thrilled to announce that we have a deal with Apple to bring the iPhone to Canada later this year. We can’t tell you any more about it right now, but stay tuned.” No explanation for what took so long, although speculation about revenue and rate issues has bubbled for months. Also no explanation for the coyness on timing, except maybe out of concern that Canadians can take only so much excitement at a time, but Rogers does have a big touchscreen-device promotion scheduled between May and July. After the giddiness dies down, we’ll see what kind of data plan Rogers puts together.
As a Canadian, I take exception to the mitten comment. It simply perpetuates the erroneous belief that we are knee-deep in snow six months a year. Well, anyway, gotta go: My lawn needs shoveling again.
’sbowoot time, eh?
Off the topic but what the hell is so hard about sending out the GMSV newsletter? More than a few times I receive the mail only to realize the content is from the day before, although the subject line is new; and on a couple of occasions it can’t be read–all the content ends up in a 1 inch column.
Hear, hear, George K! It’s a strange type of mind game, to be totally unable to find the ‘headline’ content in the newsletter….
To George, Bob and any other newsletter subscribers who have suffered through this sporadic annoyance, I apologize. The newsletter system is set up in a way that pulls content from a page posted in the publishing system. Every once in a while, we seem to go through a stretch where either the servers on the publishing system aren’t synced or there’s a caching problem or something, with the result that some newsletter subscribers get the new content and others get the day-old version. Answers have eluded the tech department, but I’m told we’ll be changing systems later this year, and my fondest hope is that once again what should be a simple process becomes simple once more. It is frustrating and discouraging when technology actively hinders, rather than helps, the work.
John
Even with the mittens on, I can’t wait.
While I have had a chance to go and get one south of the border, I decided to wait so that when things go wrong and they will I just send the unit back to Apple.