“The iPhone brand is in worse shape than I thought was even possible. And the implications of that are huge. … The iPhone is in deep trouble.”

— Eric S. Raymond

The Smartphone Wars: AT&T CEO reveals all http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=2898 in Armed and Dangerous (27 January 2011)

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