Ranting Kenya

I hate to give a product such as the iPhone more time than it has already gotten, but whatever.

It seems Apple’s new killer product will be coming to Rogers wireless in Canada (I know, old news). Personally, I can only think of one person still using Rogers as their wireless carrier, and that’s mostly because of his work and he’s addicted to the crackberry. On a side note, I am writing this from my moto Q.

Bell Canada and Telus dominate the wireless market by my count. But with Rogers offering the iPhone to gadget loving Canadians, will it be enough to grab more market share? It’s likely that to expand the iPhone’s market share, Apple will offer another version that runs on the other carrier’s networks. The question is when. Is there going to be enough lead-time before the inevitable widespread iPhone availability? Somehow I doubt it.

The iPhone for all its glory, is still a first generation product. It will have its issues. By the time they work out some of these issues, I believe other carriers will carry the device, and it will probably be cheaper than it is today. I’ll wait until my contract is over before I go for it (2.5 years left). By then, this whole thing will have hopefully sorted itself out.