3 begging Apple for the 3G Iphone

[giantroo]

Pretty amatuer for the company to tell its customers to beg Apple for the new 3g iphone.

According to sources, Apple want 60% of their advertising in 3 stores but 3 wont comply therefore 3 want the customers to beg em for it.

Three asks customers to beg Apple for the iPhone

By Ella Morton on 26 June 2008

Come on, Apple! I'll be your friend...

With the iPhone 3G being the most hotly anticipated handset of the year, you can't blame the mobile carriers for wanting a piece of the lucrative action. But telco 3 has gone to extreme measures, creating a website where customers can beg Apple to make the phone available on the network.
The site, located at www.three.com.au/iphone, will go live tomorrow, and is accompanied by a mobile version — SMS the word iPhone to 333000 and you'll receive a digital form to submit your iPhone pleas.
Though less kind commentators might call the move a little desperate, Noel Hamill, director of Sales, Marketing & Product at 3, says it's all about satisfying the customers.

"Ever since Apple's announcement that a 3G iPhone is coming, we've had lots of calls and emails — the main flavour is people wanting to get the value that 3 offers with the iPhone," said Hamill in a statement released today. "We want Apple to see just how much our customers want the iPhone."
Regardless of what convincing messages get posted on the site, the iPhone will not be available on 3 on 11 July. That date is reserved for Optus and Vodafone, but the 3 statement said the company "hopes it will come to 3 stores soon".
Telstra is yet to employ similar tactics, but we're betting the company would love to stock the iPhone in their shiny new T[Life] stores.

Currently only Vodaphone and Optus have access to it and will come out on July 11th.

If 3 dont get the phone, im looking at changing carriers and moving to Vodafone. Already pre-registered with Vodafone for the phone.