Apple Shows Conflicting Views On The White iPhone
Apple has not officially released the white iPhone 4 yet, but that didn’t stop Apple co-founder, Steve Wozniak, from purchasing one of those popular modding kits from off of the Internet and taking his own iPhone to task. Several sources have confirmed that Wozniak admits to tinkering with his iPhone in order to give it a white case. Apple has repeatedly threatened and in some cases, put people out of business on Ebay if they even hinted at giving consumers the ability to mod their iPhones to create the highly sought after white casing. Wozniak said that his iPhone had numerous issues after modding, so to his credit, perhaps this was all an experiment that was done to show consumers that their stance on modding is justified. Even still, it does show Apple as being a bit hypocritical when it comes to their iPhone modding policies.
The good news is that the white iPhone 4 is coming to a store near you, but consumers won’t be able to pick it up until sometime in the springs of 2011. Slated to be released only a few months before the unveiling of the iPhone 5, most fans will probably still pick it up, but then quickly trade it in. There have been numerous rumors and reports that Apple was going to release a white iPhone 4 since this past summer, but the company said that the phone came with too many glitches to be released to the public. Who know that changing the color of a smart phone would prove to be so difficult?
AT&T Reason For Anti iPhone Sentiment
As impressive as the iPhone 4 is, there are still a good number of consumers that wouldn’t touch it with a 10 foot pole. These aren’t people that have something against Apple. What they do have a problem with is cell phone carrier, AT&T. Since Apple still have an exclusive contract that stipulates the iPhone owners can only get coverage with AT&T, there are literally millions of people holding out until other cell phone providers are considered.
In a report recently released by ChangeWave, a whopping 84% of current iPhone 4 users said that they were happy. On the other hand, over a 1/3 of Motorola cell phone owners would purchase an iPhone if it was available on their current carrier. While the study does support the fact that Apple’s exclusive contract with AT&T is technically costing them some customers, it seems that those that bit the bullet and signed up with AT&T to get the iPhone found that the cell phone carrier was more tolerable than they thought the company would be.
For months, it has been rumored that Verizon would be added to the short list of companies allowed the privelege of supporting the iPhone, but so far a date or confirmation of the rumor has been announced. Apple may decide that gaining more customers in time for the release of the iPhone 5 is important enough to develop contracts with another carrier, but their deal with AT&T may be too lucrative to get them to jump ship. This means that those unhappy Motorola owners are either going to have to suck it up, or venture over to the dark side.