When the first iPhone came out I worked for a large regional telco, and you're correct, they did not believe in that thing at all. We where having lunch with one of the sales people and she gave the iPhone three months, something like that, arguing that a new BlackBerry was on the way and once that hit the shelves everyone would forget about the iPhone.
Fun detail, one of my coworkers where tasked with implementing the unlocking feature, customers could either pay to have their iPhone unlocked or was entitled to after six months. He absolutely hated Apples API, which seemed weird, because it was totally reasonable, just really secure and radically different than anything else in the telco world.
Fun detail, one of my coworkers where tasked with implementing the unlocking feature, customers could either pay to have their iPhone unlocked or was entitled to after six months. He absolutely hated Apples API, which seemed weird, because it was totally reasonable, just really secure and radically different than anything else in the telco world.