Okay readers, time to get out your salt. I am in no way convinced of this rumor, for a number of reasons I’ll get to later, but we’re hitting this anyway. To start with, the WSJ is reporting href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203405504576603053795839250.html">that Sprint is getting in on the iPhone — and the buy-in is astronomical: 30.5 million iPhones over the next four years, costing $20 billion at current market rates, which would probably make them lose money until 2014 on the deal.
We’ve seen a lot of rumors about Sprint getting the next iPhone, so that I can buy.
href="http://www.bgr.com/2011/10/03/sprint-guarantees-to-buy-over-20-billion-in-iphones-from-apple-launching-the-iphone-5-exclusively/">But over at BGR they’re saying the deal goes beyond that, and that Sprint is forking out this huge, huge commitment in exchange for something special: the exclusive rights to the iPhone 5. Not the iPhone 4S, which will go everywhere, but the totally redesigned iPhone 5 — which AT&T and Verizon won’t get until Q1 2012, and will be a 4G device.
I really don’t know what to make of that rumor. If it’s true, Apple could potentially be alienating a huge number of users — the Apple faithful who jumped on AT&T when the first iPhone came out, and have stuck with the company since then. If the iPhone 5 is Sprint only for Q4, that’s millions of pissed off users who will want to upgrade.
I’m skeptical, to put it lightly.
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