Opinion: Your call could not be connected

But, love ‘em or hate ‘em, and most seem to hate ‘em, the only real choice for the iPhone rollout was to use Telstra. But then, Apple has a history of fighting against the tide, just look at the way it lost every opportunity to win the operating system war against Microsoft. Maybe the company feels better when it’s up against the odds. Oh, and before you start bleating about Apple vs Microsoft, let me tell you right now it was only short term greed which lost that battle.

Don’t believe me? Well, if an Apple Macintosh was available for the same price as an MS-DOS PC, it would have been a total no brainer which one business owners chose for their troops. But with the Mac selling for literally twice the price back then, a simple business decision was made. Buy half the PCs they needed, which are also easy to use, or get all the PCs they needed and let their staff figure it out. Easy choice really, since anything you do repetitively every day soon becomes easy. Apple had years to win that war before Windows even arrived on the scene. And what a different world it might have been!

Still, it would just have given us a different mega-computer company to hate, while we all ran around bleating that poor little Microsoft never got a chance with big bad Apple monopolising everything. Maybe in some parallel universe this is happening right now. Anybody got Stephen Hawkings number? Hope he’s not using an iPhone on Vodafone or he’ll never be in a signal area.