T-Mobile CEO John Legere bashes Amazon/AT&T exclusivity on Twitter

By Williams Pelegrin June 17, 2014

Some people aren’t too hot on the thought that Amazon’s long-awaited smartphone will reportedly be an AT&T-exclusive. You can now add T-Mobile CEO John Legere to the growing list of perplexed people.

Over on Twitter, Legere made a few jabs in response to the report, even bringing up the flop that was 2013’s “Facebook phone”:

When #big (@ATT) and #bigger (@Amazon) get together, the industry feels a whole lot smaller.

— John Legere (@JohnLegere) June 17, 2014

Exclusivity sucks for customers. Exclusivity on @ATT sucks for the industry. #justsayin

— John Legere (@JohnLegere) June 17, 2014

Let’s hope @amazon doesn’t fall victim to the @att curse that is the facebook phone. #onemonth

— John Legere (@JohnLegere) June 17, 2014

The Facebook phone Legere is referring to is the HTC First, the Facebook-centric handset that was exclusive to AT&T. Unfortunately for the First, sales of the handset were so anemic that the carrier cut the price down to $1 before eventually discontinuing it altogether shortly after.

While Legere might have a point in that carrier-exclusive products are bad for consumers, keep in mind that T-Mobile has several exclusives of their own, including the Sony Xperia Z1S.

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