In Pictures: Five years ago they said the iPhone would be a flop ... Now?

Pundits who got it wrong explain why ... or deny that they did

Kuittinen explains

What does Kuittinen have to say for himself?

"Well, that is easy -- I underestimated Apple's ability to coax operators to grant it massive subsidy support. The lack of 3G support also wasn't as limiting to the first edition of the iPhone as I expected. Apple was able to get the operators to subsidize the price of the iPhone massively -- that reshaped the whole industry."

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