Before the launch of the first model of the iPhone terminal, Steve Jobs dorea to transform the Apple company into a mobile phone operator. He would have liked to use Wi-Fi technology to give users the opportunity to make phone calls, but in the end he chose to launch the new iPhone together with AT&T and other operators from around the world. Apple would have become a mobile phone operator if Steve Jobs' idea had a chance to become a reality, but the studies carried out by the company's engineers proved that everything Jobs wanted was impossible to apply in reality.
Stanton, currently chairman at venture capital firm Trilogy Partnership, said he spent a fair amount of time with Jobs between 2005 and 2007. "He wanted to replace carriers," Stanton said of Jobs, the Apple founder and CEO who passed away recently after a battle with cancer. "He and I spent a lot of time talking about whether synthetically you could create a carrier using Wi-Fi spectrum. That was part of his vision."
Even without competing directly with the mobile phone operators, Apple managed to impose its authority on them so that now the iPhone terminal has the largest subsidies from all the mobile phone operators where it is available. If Steve Jobs had succeeded in implementing his plan, then today we would probably have a completely different way of making phone calls and surfing the Internet, but in the end Steve Jobs failed to revolutionize this technological segment as well.
"If I were a carrier, I'd be concerned about the dramatic shift in power that occurred," he said.
Companies like Apple and Google, which develops Android, sell a variety of software and services that capture revenue streams that might otherwise have gone to the operators.
