Looks like Apple is finally picking sides in the Canadian battle for better iPhone plans. They have allocated just enough iPhones to supply every Rogers store with 10-20 3G iPhones, and will not be selling them in the Canadian Apple stores.

This is of course all because Rogers feels that its customers don’t deserve a cheap iPhone plan, and that a 3 year contract can be justified. Apparently Apple agrees with the 51 thousand people that filled in an online petition (seems kind of low…). Of course, the official Apple comment is "We have nothing to do with the service plans. Those are Rogers’ plans".

Source: AppleInsider