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Nov 20, 07 - 10:45 am Comment from: silverhawk

I want the iPhone sold in Finland. I want to see what Nokia will come up with to combat Apple.

Apple is the evil empire and must be taken down by all means. Microsoft is our savior, and will fight for our freedoms.

Nov 20, 07 - 10:57 am Comment from: TowerTone

Sour grapes make for pitiful whine....

Nov 20, 07 - 11:11 am Comment from: informed

Apple makes a phone?

Nov 20, 07 - 11:24 am Comment from: Ampar

Folksy translation:
"Mama don't take my Vodafone
Leave your boy so far from home
Mama don't take my Vodafone away"

Nov 20, 07 - 11:34 am Comment from: Big Al

If it is forbidden they will just want it more.

T-Mobile thanks Vodafone for all of the free publicity.

Nov 20, 07 - 11:34 am Comment from: LinuxGuyAndMacProdigalSon

This is great publicity for the iPhone. The loser telcos are in effect saying that the iPhone is so superior, that they too must be granted access to it.

All the fuzz in Germany about the T Mobile injonction is about the statut of the SIM locked iPhone. I know it's illegal in France, Belgium, Finland, etc, In Germany it could be the same. It's seem that outside the Anglosphere (U.S., Canada, U.K.), Apple must offers to consumers the option for an unlocked SIM iPhone.

I think that the Apple lawyers division is already studying carefully their international consumers law codes...

I never tougnt that iTunes was a real target for the EU courts as a "non-competitive legal scam". But excluse contracts like those in Europe with Orange or T Mobile could much more be contested against by consumer's associations there or by local competition.

Nov 20, 07 - 11:39 am Comment from: Ampar

The real reason for the restraining order is that Vodafone and T-Mobile used to date and things got ugly. T-Mobile tried to get Vodafone drunk and then lay some heavy cable. T-Mobile thought it could "Get More" and wanted them to "Stay Closer" and "Stick Together" while Vodafone just wanted to "Make the Most of Now".
Millions of calls went unreturned. True story.

Nov 20, 07 - 11:39 am Comment from: TowerTone

Ampar
Would that make iPhone the needle and OS X the heroin?

Nov 20, 07 - 11:42 am Comment from: Ampar

Oh, TT. You're so vein!

Nov 20, 07 - 11:53 am Comment from: Schuimpje

Vodafone Challenges iPhone Deal in Germany
By Stefan Mechnig and Daniel Thomas
Word Count: 400 | Companies Featured in This Article: Deutsche Telekom, Apple, Vodafone, AT&T;, Telefonica, France Telecom
A German court has ordered T-Mobile Deutschland GmbH, a unit of Deutsche Telekom AG, to change its marketing for Apple Inc.'s iPhone by Wednesday.

The court has prohibited T-Mobile from continuing to sell the iPhone only in combination with a two-year contract and it has demanded that the product be allowed to function in networks other than those of T-Mobile.

The changed conditions will be valid until another hearing at the Hamburg court, which is expected in two weeks, a Deutsche ...

Nov 20, 07 - 11:55 am Comment from: Schuimpje

So Vodafone has the first strike...mmmh...

Nov 20, 07 - 12:04 pm Comment from: TowerTone

Amp
That's the point!

Nov 20, 07 - 12:40 pm Comment from: The Other Steve

"...stop the sale of the iPhone if it is sold only in connection with a 24 month T-Mobile contract "

You don't need the 24-month contract to buy the iPhone. Only if you want to use it. There's a difference, right?

Nov 20, 07 - 01:23 pm Comment from: echo416

@ silverhawk

Nokia is already coming out with their own almost identical copy of the iPhone, that is if they don't get sued by Apple first for copyright infringements.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFKyAMQPbmI

Nov 20, 07 - 01:47 pm Comment from: Ampar

To echo416: Thanks for the link. That's truly a pathetic copy. I think it falls under trade dress infringement like the iMac rip-offs but IANAL.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dress

Nov 20, 07 - 01:48 pm Comment from: AAPL

ok if it is the "law"

I will have to sell on every network

darn

Nov 20, 07 - 02:14 pm Comment from: Madmax

Well done Vodafone. Restrictive practice is the same in any language - perhaps there is something to this EU organisation after all.

Telco's should compete on quality of service not anti-competitive lock-ins.

Who am I?

Hey, how come I don't have a star next to my name? How do you get a star?

Nov 20, 07 - 02:22 pm Comment from: Madmax

give teacher an apple !!

Nov 20, 07 - 03:07 pm Comment from: Ampar

JohnVajohn24601: "Hey, how come I don't have a star next to my name? How do you get a star?"

Look right above the first comment.

Nov 20, 07 - 03:34 pm Comment from: TowerTone

That Trade Dress Law reminds me of when Harley sued someone (Yamaha?) for infringing on the SOUND of a Harley.

Nov 20, 07 - 05:33 pm Comment from: Mac4lfe

I say let the consumer decide with their wallets what is fair, not the government.

Pretty amazing how MacDailyGarbage will shout their BS about anything closed in the MS world but when it comes to Apple you lick Jobs ass. How does that brown eye taste hypocrites?

If it gets the iPhone unlocked good for Vodafone.