After reading the article: The Untold Story: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry, it was kind of clear that how wireless providers rule the industry, they make sure what phone to built and for what cost and other associated things. But the iPhone kind of changed this trend. It has created a new revolution in the industry. This revolution will create true flexibility in usage, network connectivity, and pricing. But we should be very careful when concluding this, as the wireless providers still rule and may continue their trend.
Long before the design phase of the iPhone, Jobs and his team had to decide how to solve the problem illustrated in the article. The option was to use Linux, engineers even went a step ahead and gave Linux a consideration as it was rewritten for use on a mobile phones, but Jobs did not like the idea.
Anyway long story short, one thing is clear from this article, "as the iPhone has been to the fortunes of Apple and AT&T, its real impact is on the structure of the $11 billion-a-year US mobile phone industry".
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