On Thursday, April 24, 2014 8:03:56 PM UTC-4, Home Guy wrote:
trader_4 wrote:



I previously stated what that reason very likely would be. The

cell phone manufacturer's customers are the cell phone carriers.



Plenty of phones are bought directly by end-users.


Define plenty. By far the largest customers of the cell phone
manufacturers are the carriers. Most consumers get their phones
from a carrier or a channel that sells a particular carrier's
cell phones.



And since when do the carriers dictate to the phone makers what features

they can build into a phone?



Good grief. Since the beginning of time sellers have listened to
what their major customers want or don't want in products.




The major phone makers are big enough to not have to take that sort of

**** from the carriers.

Take what S***? The only one clammering for a TV in their phone
is apparently you. Before introducing new products, manufacturer's
routinely give major customers previews of what they are thinking of
in terms of features for new products, to solicite feedback. Say
LG told their top 10 customers that they were thinking of putting a
TV into the phone and most of them had strong objections, why in the
world would LG then do it? And the relationship between carriers
and cell phone companies is probably one of the strongest out there.
They have to be in sync with new technology rollouts. It wouldn't
work very well if the cell phone companies just made up a phone for
next year with 7R technology and found out that the carriers couldn't
and wouldn't support it. So of course they are heavily dependent on
each other.