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The remarkable thing about this financial crisis, says Ralph de la Vega, is that consumers' appetite for high-end smart phones hasn't wanted at all.
"What we have seen is very unusual, given the financial situation" said de la Vega, CEO of AT&T's Mobility and Consumer Markets, while speaking at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. "We have actually seen our store traffic increase 17 percent from October a year ago, so customers have turned out in record numbers for devices like the iPhone and BlackBerry Bold."
And what happens after BlackBerry and iPhone sales fade?"I tink the Kindle and those sorts of devices represent the next wave of growth in the industry," said de la Vega.Photo: Courtesy AT&T
