3 Ireland boss slams "backward" iPhone

The head of music at 3 Ireland, Graeme Slattery, has called the iPhone "a step backwards" and says that it would have "little chance" of success in any European market without heavy modification.
In an interview to be published on Sunday, he said that the iPhone's lack of bandwidth capability, lack of downloading ability and lack of operator software were big barriers to the gadget's chances in Europe. He also said that the commercial model adopted in the US, where customers must sign up to a 2 year, $60-per-month plan, plus pay the full, unsubsidised $500/$600 handset price, "hadn't a chance" of working in the Irish market.
"I expect that it will prove reasonably successful in the US," said Slattery. "But they only started texting about two years ago. We're more advanced in Europe."

Comments

[TomB]

Funny, when I first went to the US in 1998 people were texting like mad.

Now it's a multi billion dollar business a month for the carriers

Obviously Mr Slattery hasn't been there of late...

I guess next he'll slag of O2 for getting the iPhone and running it on an EDGE network!