Comment on Google's biggest announcement was not a phone, but a URLparentComments−henrikschroder16y"Wouldn't it be great if Apple ran a similarly carrier-independent iPhone store, or Nokia did the same with its smartphone lineup?"They've done it for years, but not in the US.http://shop.nokia.co.uk/nokia-uk/searchresults.aspx?search_i...−henrikschroder16yFunny thing, I was just gonna check out the US Nokia website to see what it would look like without the store, and it turns out they already have one:http://store.nokia.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/shophome_10...−jcl16yThey might as well have one; they sell more than just phones, and some of their phones (e.g. N900) have not yet been adopted as subsidized models by U.S. carriers.
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"Wouldn't it be great if Apple ran a similarly carrier-independent iPhone store, or Nokia did the same with its smartphone lineup?"
They've done it for years, but not in the US.
http://shop.nokia.co.uk/nokia-uk/searchresults.aspx?search_i...
Funny thing, I was just gonna check out the US Nokia website to see what it would look like without the store, and it turns out they already have one:
http://store.nokia.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/shophome_10...
They might as well have one; they sell more than just phones, and some of their phones (e.g. N900) have not yet been adopted as subsidized models by U.S. carriers.