Maxis + iPhone = Bad timing

The rumours that had been floating around for months about the iPhone’s arrival have finally been proven true.

Maxis is bringing the iPhone to Malaysia but the data plans are quite clearly ridiculous.

Are Malaysians seriously going to cough up that amount of money? When the iPhone 3G’s been on the grey market for ages?
And in a time when people are counting their pennies, do they really want to spend all that much on a model that will likely be updated in the next few months?

What was Maxis thinking? Seriously.

Note to Nokia: this would be an excellent time to push, push, push the excellently priced 5800. It’s affordable, it works, and you can get that price (RM1499) without being forced into bondage with Maxis.

But people are still going to lust after the Nokia N97 anyway – let us hope there’ll be enough software for it. We suggest judicious whipping to ‘motivate’ Symbian developers.

But in other news, Apple fanboys may rejoice at the coming of a preview of the latest iPhone OS 3.0.

We’ll never be rid of you, will we, iPhone?