So what happens when you combine a Japanese ISP Founder, the idea of an iPhone, and the idea of WiMAX together in a room? You get a fun-filled day of iPhone/WiMAX bashing! Sachio Semmoto, the founder of eAccess (a broadband provider as well as a wireless company) said that the iPhone is a “total failure” in the US compared to the number of phones sold by others (think RAZR). While he liked the functions, he doesn’t like it on AT&T (who doesn’t?).
“If I have a chance to talk to Steve, I’d like to tell him face to face: You made a wrong choice.”
In between shots at the iPhone, Semmoto also mentioned that WiMAX will lose the 4G mobile battle versus LTE (no mention of UMB?) and CDMA (the technology Verizon and Sprint uses) will fail on the way to LTE.
So… How many iPhones have been sold in one year? Such a miserable failure. And CDMA will die because LTE is not CDMA-based, it’s roots are in GSM. Ahh… Thank you, Mr. Semmoto.
Read [NZ Herald]
RAZR? Is the RAZR a smartphone? How's Motorola doing on those Razor sales? Sounds like a complete idiot.
All this talk about 'failure' and 'wrong choice' reminds me of the time when Mike Dell said Apple should close its doors and return the money to its shareholders…