For those of you who have been following the long overdue iPhone Canadian release, there may yet be hope.
Andrew Regalson got his hands on a “leaked” Rogers flyer with a “Canadian release date” for the iPhone on January 18, 2008! Sounds too good to be true? It may yet be…
There have been a few false starts in the last couple months: someone had created a completely different (and fake) iPhone ad for Rogers and posted it boygenius.com, Molsons had mistakenly listed an iPhone as one of their upcoming prizes in Canada, and then the Apple store in Toronto had accidentally posted an iPhone seminar for their downtown store on November 10.
Many don’t think the iPhone will actually arrive in Canada because there’s a copyright/trademark dispute: someone other than Apple owns the name “iPhone” in Canada. And then there’s the much-debated data plan dispute: Apple wants it’s iPhone customers to have unlimited (and affordable) data plans to take full advantage of the iPhone, but that’s something that Rogers isn’t supporting.
Honestly, I think anything can happen. I wouldn’t be surprised if the ad posted by Andrew Regalson were real. On the other hand, Canada doesn’t really rack up there as one of Apple’s largest markets: I’m sure Apple will move through Europe and Asia before Apple sets it’s sights on Canada. Just compare the population of any Europe capital to that of Edmonton or even Vancouver/Toronto? Either way, I’m prepared to wait.
Regards,
iRoy