Canadian media have reported some false starts in the introduction of the iPhone in this country. The Apple store in downtown TO is removing iphone workshops from its website that were scheduled for this month and Molson recanted that one of its contests would have iPhones as a prize.

The issue is over the exorbitant prices that mobility providers charge for data and other services.

The iPhone comes with a cost for Rogers TGAM 6 Nov 2007

European carriers will offer service plans that start at the equivalent of $70 a month. A rough calculation based on Rogers’ current fees for its existing cellphone services indicates that similar features are more than double the price here, based on the cheapest plan. With some other data plans for Rogers’ cellphones, customers could rack up bills of hundreds, or conceivably thousands, of dollars.

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Carriers are used to bossing around the device makers, telling them what features to add. Apple changed that relationship, deciding for itself how to design the cellphone/Internet device/music player.

It will be a good thing if the eventual introduction of the iPhone changes the mobility market in Canada.

I don’t go for complaining about being busy. If you are going to do it, you should enjoy it. I have, however, been unusually scheduled recently.

I was away last week, which was busy in a different way, but leading up to that I had worked all but two days at my various jobs and now, having come back, I am in the middle working six days in a row.

Within all this I hope to catch up on knowledge i have gained and created and on recording events of the past few weeks.