@CABEZAGRANDE: "That's about the same weight to power ratio as a new ZR1."
It's still driving the wrong wheels. For $6500 you could spit out the window and find half a dozen S14s, all of which won't shred their front axle on takeoff.
@KalEnt: they could get it right by not shitting billions of dollars down the drain developing a third-rate OS and just shack up with Android instead. When faced with an identical OS people will buy based on hardware, and Nokia still makes better phones than many of its competitors.
Beyond the US the iPhone is facing a similar fate in Japan - locked to a minority carrier. It's available on SoftBank, but the country has little GSM coverage compared to CDMA. If Apple were to start cranking out CDMA-flavored iPhones, they could sell on NTT or au, both of which dwarf SoftBank.
And yet with the 1993 redesign it was the US that got the shaft, losing the A/V ports (while the AV Famicom gained them by way of the SNES A/V connector).