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Apple's Demand of Cingular: Absolute Faith

When Cingular executives went to the company's board last year to get approval for a deal with Apple, they did so without so much as a prototype of an Apple phone to show the directors. The board signed off anyway. We got this deal approved without them ever seeing the device, said Glenn Lurie, president of national distribution for Cingular Wireless.