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		morcheeba on March 18, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple iPhone Will Fail in a Late, Defensive Move (... This was one of the easiest things they could have gotten right. A phone you buy from the manufacturer instead of the carrier? That was revolutionary ... Verizon sold gimped versions of the RAZR and then charged you a monthly fee to ungimp them!

tricolon on March 18, 2014 [–]

That wasn't the only factor; all my Nokia phones I purchased from Nokia directly.

runn1ng on March 18, 2014 | [–]

This.

In Europe, carrier and manufacturer were decoupled for some time before iPhone, so it was not revolutionary in that regard.

crwll on March 18, 2014 | | [–]

Were they actually generally ever coupled in Europe in the first place? In Finland they weren't.

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