| disolitude said: Its the nature of the business due to carriers. Nokia's job is to persue AT&T, Verizon, Sprint or whoever to buy their phones. Nokia would gladly make things available to everyone but the carriers don't want this. AT&T is getting beind the Lumia 900 only because this is something they can have and other carriers can't. Carriers don't make a lot of sense to me to be honest. AT&T has ordered both HTC Titan 2 and Nokia Lumia in large quantities. HTC would not have made the Titan 2 if AT&T wasn't willing to sell it as they are the only carrier with that device. It makes absolutely no sense for AT&T to want the Titan 2. Sure the Titan was a good seller for them, but they have the Lumia 900 which they are paying 150 million to advertise themselves.Then there is a 199 dollar price VS 99 for the Lumia 900. Lumia 900 marketing push + better hardware design + half the price = a lot of unsold Titan 2 inventory It would have made so much more sense for Titan 2 to go to Verizon and Verizon, AT&T, Nokia, HTC and Microsoft would have been much better off for it. A 10 year old could figure this out, so I wonder why these companies couldn't put the 2 and 2 together... |
To be honest, Cell Phone Providers seem to be the stupidest parts of the business world. Seriously.
