As I said yesterday:
Unfortunately, it appears that Australian telcos simply don’t understand the nature of [the iPhone] and the way it will be used. #
And today, the media and significant parts of the Australian blogosphere seem to agree, and have said so:
Mark Pesce suggests we should build our own network
Craig Thomler proposes that [...]
UPDATE: Despite the fact that it was rapidly pulled down (and is not yet back up as at 6:00PM AEST on 9 July), Vodafone finally published their pricing this morning. Realising my worst fears, Vodafone have produced the least competitive plans in the market. By delaying, they actually had time to implement a market-dominating approach, [...]
The iPhone is going to utterly change the smartphone landscape. Everyone else is now completely in catchup mode. Nothing more to say.
Except that I have to wait until 2008 to get one! Dammit!
Pages and pages of in depth commentary at:
AppleInsider
TechCrunch (and more)
Om Malik
O’Reilly Radar (plus O’Reilly Emerging Telephony)
Boing Boing
Web Worker Daily
Engadget (plus [...]