I had one and I thought it was a pretty useless phone, to be quite honest. The battery ran out in no time. I didn’t like the touch screen. … We’d be more than happy to sell it. We have half the market in the Netherlands and we hope we will be the party of choice.”
– KPN CEO Ad Scheepbouwer ruins the telecom’s chances of becoming the exclusive provider of the iPhone in the Netherlands.
John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper.
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