If iPhone comes to Verizon, you'll see a ton of people switching from AT&T because their network sucks. I dunno how it is in other areas, but here you'll get dropped calls and lack of signal all the time. Verizon on the other hand is leaps and bounds ahead of them, quality wise. The only bad thing about Verizon is their phones suck, which is something the iPhone will fix.
Apple May Have Two iPhones For Verizon
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Re: Apple May Have Two iPhones For Verizon
#12Why would Apple create a stripped down 'iPhone lite', as the article suggests? Sounds very un-Appley, and seems to take away the major plus of choosing an iphone (apps). If it comes to the Verizon network, I'll definitely get one, as long as they don't let Verizon cripple it and screw it up. (I have a lot of faith in Verizon.) It seems that Apple would be in the position of power in negotiations, so I can't see them…
I think it is most likely a negotiating tactic pr-release vs. at&t. By announcing how they "could" get around the limitations of the current deal and presenting Verizon as a serious suitor, Apple should be able to increase the dollar amount on the renewal of the exclusivity deal when that happens.
Re: Apple May Have Two iPhones For Verizon
#13Verizon cripples the OS on their phones so that no content can be downloaded to the phone other than what Verizon sells. In fact Verizon even locks out USB and Bluetooth file transfers from the phones I've tried. I don't see how a company with that kind of business model can be a useful host of the iPhone platform. It'll be interesting to see how they cripple it.
I have a Windows Mobile Verison smartphone, and I can fiddle with the data all I want. It takes third-party apps to back up EVERYTHING, or edit the registry, but that shouldn't be surprising. Plain ol' Windows ActiveSync is enough to go in and monkey with the filesystem at will.
Re: Apple May Have Two iPhones For Verizon
#14Here's the rub on why I think this is bunk (but I've been wrong before).
Apple's mobile platform has an app store. Developers sell Apps that run on the iPhone and iPod Touch, which are virtually identical devices (a mere 3 pixels of resolution separate the two).
Introducing more devices fragments their mobile platform, making it more of a pain to develop for.
This is likely a ploy to get concessions from AT&T.