Best Buy Canada touts iPhone, but lacks sales contract
Even companies that aren't selling the iPhone have taken to promoting its virtues.
AppleInsider spotted a Web page hosted by Best Buy's Canadian operation where customers can sign up to receive more information on the "revolutionary new device from Apple." That's a rather forward way of hawking a product you're not selling, eh? Neither Best Buy Canada nor its U.S. counterpart have plans to sell the iPhone any time soon, a corporate representative in Best Buy's U.S. offices confirmed.
Best Buy Canada is using this iPhone image to promote the 'beautiful' and 'powerful' product that it's not even selling.
(Credit: Best Buy Canada)As we all know, AT&T was the launch partner for the iPhone, and those hosers have the iPhone all to themselves for a while. Strong demand for the iPhone during opening week has many buzzing about other launch partners in Europe and other parts of the world. Earlier this year Rogers Wireless put out a release claiming it would be the exclusive Canadian provider of the iPhone. That makes sense, since Rogers is the only GSM carrier in Canada, but that release apparently crossed the blue line before Apple was ready. Rogers later said it had no definitive plans to carry the iPhone.
Apparently Best Buy Canada still wants to capitalize on the buzz around the iPhone, however, and will provide iPhone-related information to its customers as it sees fit. That's rather nice of them--marketing the iPhone in Canada for Apple without an immediate return--which makes me think there's a plan in the works for later this year or early next. Unless Don Cherry is running Best Buy Canada's marketing department.
Tom Krazit writes about the ever-expanding world of Internet search, including Google, Yahoo, online advertising, and portals, as well as the evolution of mobile computing. He has written about traditional PC companies, chip manufacturers, and mobile computers, spending the last three years covering Apple. E-mail Tom.
- Stereotypical Ignorance...
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by casademike
July 9, 2007 1:58 PM PDT
- Do you think you are being funny with all your stereotypical Canadian references in this piece? It makes you look - well rather less than intelligent. I expected more from an organization such as C-Net.
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- Yet you assumed I'm an American
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by Tom Krazit
July 9, 2007 3:22 PM PDT
- I am, but that's not really the point.
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(3 Comments)I bet you are one of those people that write crap like this and then wonder why people tend to dislike Americans so much.
Take a moment to think about it.
Those were jokes, mostly in homage to Strange Brew, one of my favorite movies. You might not think they are funny, and I might agree they are maybe a bit tired. But if I made a joke about Paris Hilton or baseball, would I be anti-American?
I am a huge fan of The McKenzie Brothers and John Candy. I love hockey, although they've wrecked it with overexpansion. The world needed The Band, Joni Mitchell, and Neil Young, although we could have done without Bryan Adams and Celine Dion.
And come on, picking on Don Cherry is fun no matter where he might have been born.