Telstra chief executive David Thodey last week said there were problems in the telco’s relationship with notoriously demanding manufacturer Apple and criticised what he called the company’s lack of openness, in a speech in which he praised Google and demonstrated Telstra’s upcoming Android tablets built by Chinese vendor Huawei.”We are Apple’s largest customer in Australia, yet with Apple we are still working through some areas in how to work,” Thodey told a lunch held by the Australia-Israel Business Council last week. “We need to be more sophisticated in our view of our relationship with a lot of companies.”Thodey added that the iPhone ecosystem was “quite contained”, describing it as a “walled garden”.To read this ZDNet report in full, see:
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Cracks form in Telstra-Apple relationship
Telstra chief executive David Thodey last week said there were problems in the telco’s relationship with notoriously demanding manufacturer Apple and criticised what he called the company’s lack of openness, in a speech in which he praised Google and demonstrated Telstra’s upcoming Android tablets built by Chinese vendor Huawei.