I say it's time to drop the hammer on China Mobile.

Originally Posted by SolipsismX 
I say it's time to drop the hammer on China Mobile.

What would happen if Apple announced the iPhone on China Mobile during the conference call?

Would the stock drop at ALL afterward?

Apple needs a larger screen iphone now more than it needs China Mobile.  If they can't get one in the market by June they have missed the boat bigger than they have already.  One simple device is all they have to ship compared to dozens of smartphones put out by Samsung in various shapes, sizes and OS'es.  Apple needs to understand there is huge demand for large screens and get on it before more iPhone users leave for Android.  This is not hard stuff.  Why can't Cook get it done? 

And our supply chain guy also seeing iMac's pushed back again.  This is months now after they were announced.  Not good.  Add to this the worst capital allocation strategy of any company ever and I have to wonder if Cook should be CEO after all?  I think you can leave him in supply chain role but running Apple and the supply chain is simply too much.  Apple needs a showy charismatic front man and is lacking this now.  Somebody who, like Jobs, goes for the jugular when threatened or mocked.  Apple sat idly by while Samsung mocked people waiting on line for iPhone in a commercial.  Apple's silent response was deafening. 

Time to find a great CEO who has vision, can push the army to move faster and let Cook focus on supply chain, what he does best. 

Originally Posted by mvigod 
Apple needs a larger screen iphone now more than it needs China Mobile. 

Apple needs neither.

When does the whining about ever larger screens end? You don't get it.

Apple makes all the money, still has the best sales, and has the best quality products. Explain why they need anything else.

[citation needed, but will never be provided, as it's not true]

Because you're just a troll with zero facts or evidence and you think that you can pretend anything you want without people calling you out.

Or if you don't like that answer, here's another: shut up and make a phone yourself, then. It's not hard stuff.

"Hey, so, we have all this money." "Yeah." "And instead of spending money we don't even have, like the government," "Okay." "we'd like to hang onto it and save it for when we need it." "YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU ARE DOING."

So you know zero about finances, zero about customer requests, demands, needs, and wants, zero about supply, and now zero about advertising. Okay, thanks!

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Originally Posted by SolipsismX 

PS: Remember the Verizon ads that mocked the iPhone. Remember the MS ads that scoffed at Apple's high prices? So going for the jugular was to make deal with each of them? Got it¡

Minor historical quibbles:

Source-wise, it was the Droid ads created by Motorola that mocked the iPhone itself for being "a tiara wearing beauty pageant queen".   The ads created by Verizon mocked only AT&T while "feeling sorry" for the iPhone being stuck on it, thus leaving open the option of dealing with Apple to get the iPhone on Verizon.

As for the high prices, Ballmer was correct when he said it wouldn't sell in the US at its starting price.   Sure enough, two months after coming out, Apple had to radically drop the iPhone price to get more sales.   Even after that short boost, sales continued to drop until the 3G model came out with full subsidies.