Verizon iPhone Rumored For Early Next Year 251
Many readers are submitting coverage from around the Net, all based on a Bloomberg piece quoting two anonymous sources who insist that Verizon Wireless will offer a CDMA iPhone in January 2011. No one at Verizon or Apple would confirm, of course, and no one at AT&T would comment. "The iPhone, which has been the sole domain of rival AT&T in the US since June 2007, will give Verizon a boost in its competition for smartphone customers, UBS AG analyst John Hodulik said in an interview. Verizon customers, who numbered 92.8 million at the end of the first quarter, may buy 3 million iPhones a quarter, he estimates. ... 'Apple is going to dramatically increase the number of devices it sells in the US when exclusivity at AT&T ends,' said Hodulik. ... 'It's hard to ignore the quality issues that AT&T has faced.'"
As Annie once said... (Score:5, Funny)
Can we shut up about this? (Score:5, Insightful)
I suppose I am an Apple "fanboy" and I like hearing interesting Apple news as much as the next guy, but there is no news here.
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As a non Apple Fanboy - I had assumed it was already on Verizon because I heard the news a couple years ago that it might be on Verizon soon and I figured I missed the news article saying it was released on Verizon.
Apparently I've been had.
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There have been rumors of a Verizon iPhone since before the first iPhone was released. Every time the supposed release date lapses, it gets pushed back 6 months.
Now of course, sooner or later these rumors are bound to be right. Eventually, most carriers are moving to LTE so you might not even need different phone models for each carrier. But until there's something in the way of evidence or a reliable source, this isn't news.
Re:Can we shut up about this? (Score:5, Funny)
It's news when it happens - or when it's imminent.
"Next year" is forever in mobile phone world. People change phones every 2 years - next year is "half a generation away".
'It's hard to ignore the quality issues that the new iPhone has faced.'
Re:Can we shut up about this? (Score:5, Funny)
'It's hard to ignore the quality issues that the new iPhone has faced.'
The quality issues aren't with the iPhone, they are with the iPhone customers. They're holding the phone wrong, remember?
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Apple has the most popular smartphone on the market
WTF? Okay, Android is a variety of phones made by different manufacturers but how can you ignore Blackberry? "It's nbot popular it just sells a lot more" or something?
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Re:Can we shut up about this? (Score:5, Funny)
If a Verizon iPhone actually occurs, or is announced, that will be news.
That there are reports from anonymous sources that a Verizon iPhone will happen in the near future is not news, its s pretty regular occurrence.
As an analogy:
While it would be significant news if Judgement Day occurred, it would not be significant news that there was a man with a hand-lettered sign on a sidewalk in a major city announcing that Judgement Day was imminent.
Apple's 28% marketshare of smartphones... (Score:3, Informative)
Right now, Apple is in a three-way tie for the market [appleinsider.com]. It will start to dominate the market if/when it goes onto the Verizon network.
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Not only that, this isn't even new.
Every year (now every few months) you get the same "OMG Iphone N+1 will be on $TELCO". I had an American friend who is switching to Verizon (because he was moving out of another telco's service area, how quaint) and was looking at my Milestone (GSM variant of the Droid) in comparison to the Iphone yet all the Itards kept saying "there are strong
Many with family plans on Verizon are waiting ... (Score:4, Insightful)
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What would Apple need to do to support CDMA and is there any market for one outside the USA? I know they shut down the CDMA network here in Australia a few years ago as it was replaced with a 850MHz 3G network. FWIW the iPhone is available for all the networks here, but the iPhone 4 will be the first to support them all completely (and AFAICT the first phone (not just iPhone) to support both 850 and 900 UMTS).
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What would Apple need to do to support CDMA and is there any market for one outside the USA? I know they shut down the CDMA network here in Australia a few years ago as it was replaced with a 850MHz 3G network. FWIW the iPhone is available for all the networks here, but the iPhone 4 will be the first to support them all completely (and AFAICT the first phone (not just iPhone) to support both 850 and 900 UMTS).
Canada was a market until November 2009 when the two major CDMA carriers (Telus/Bell) launched an HSPA+/HSUPA network in most of the provinces. I have my iPhone 3GS through Fido but I have my iPad on a 15 dollar paygo data plan with Bell.
Most of the remaining CDMA markets are either comprised of people too poor to buy an iPhone and data plan or use a different variant of CDMA which uses SIM cards called CSIMs.
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And from what I understand Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T are all going to use LTE instead of WiMax for their 4G networks.
Now I would think it would still have to have CDMA as a fall back when 4G is unavailable. So would still have to have a separate set of guts for the different providers.
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Also, Verizon will use LTE only for data, initially. So you'll still need CDMA for voice. So you'd need both radios. Surf the web, talk on the phone, watch your battery drain.
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The Infinion chipset in the iPhone already has the support needed for CDMA from what I've read, basically they just need to put the right radios in the phone, and Verizon needs to make the network enhancements to support visual voice mail.
THe potential market in the US is huge, probably in the neighborhood of 60 million potential new buyers. Of course only a fraction of those will purchase, but since the Verizon customer base is about the same size as AT&T's and given the penetration of the iPhone in t
I Want (Score:3, Funny)
If Apple wants to lock down the iPhone...
And Google wants to remotely install and delete software from my droid...
Then I want a N900 + MeeGo.
I also want a pony.
AT&T....can you fear me now? (Score:2)
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Yup. That's why when the iPhone 4G launched they allowed anyone to sign up for one, even if they weren't near the end of their contract. Now AT&T has locked in everyone who was an Apple fanboy or early adopter, and probably the majority of iPhone upgraders. When (if) it hits Verizon in January the only people who will be interested are the (relatively) few people who wanted an iPhone but who didn't want to leave Verizon for AT&T AND who didn't already shell out for a Droid X, Droid 2, or whatever
Steve would never do this... (Score:5, Insightful)
It would certainly calm fears at AT&T about subscriber loss...
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Re:Steve would never do this... (Score:5, Informative)
Verizon's not doing this to their Android phones, so I see no reason why they'd do it to their iPhone (not that Apple would ever allow that to happen).
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Tech companies must know by now that a lot of non-geeks ask their geek friends and colleagues for tech advice - including what new smartphone to buy. Piss off or disappoint the geeks, and they will talk trash about your
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Where they really "pissed off" about those things? I hope they enjoy swapping out there battery every few hours :)
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2005 called, they want their ant-Verizon rant back...
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I want an apology from Verizon for their 2005 antics before I go back to them.
Too bad (Score:2, Insightful)
Really, Apple should have gone multi-carrier from the 3G(S) onwards and probably from the first iPhone... But, this is Apple, after all, AT&T's terrible network is just part of the experience! Now you
different systems (Score:5, Insightful)
nothing that will work on the ATT network will work on Verizon. different chipsets, different modulation, different cell-skip algorithms.
so Apple would have to whip up two different phones altogether. they could keep the screen and maybe some of the case parts, but nothing else. they don't do that.
we are entering a new era, in which the 4G systems are going to be more similar than different. now, it makes sense for Apple to span multiple 4G systems, as you just fork the software left or right at boot, and twiddle some tables. note the rumored verIphone will only work in the 4G realm, which will be 1/5 of the network or so in January, but the whole thing by the 2012/2013 boundary.
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Re:different systems (Score:5, Insightful)
Yes, but its Apple, look at Motorola which pretty much shipped 4 versions of the Razor phone for each of the major carriers, just add some drivers to iOS and divide manufacturing between CDMA and GSM iPhones, for a company as large as Apple, its not too huge of a feat. For a tiny community driven company, yes, for a major hardware vendor like Apple? Its easy.
Why do something as easy as ship 4 different phones for the 4 major US carriers, when they can do something as complicated as ship one phone that works with at least one provider in just about every place on earth.
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Keeping the permutations of devices small allows developers and Apple to focus on more important things.
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Doing pretty well too.. Thanks for making his point ;)
Re:different systems (Score:5, Interesting)
Up until now, all iPhone complaints seemed to be "ITS ONLY ON AT&T!!!!111!!!!!", including reviews for international readers. Here in New Zealand, I can easily use our iPhones, sold unlocked by Vodafone, on THREE carriers. Overseas, the iPhone is sold EXPLICITLY to be used on any network you choose,
"Buy your iPhone from Apple SIM-free."
"It works with the carrier of your choice.
Buy your iPhone from the Apple Online Store and choose your own GSM carrier. You can change carriers at any time."
"It works internationally.
Because this iPhone is SIM-free, you can purchase a micro-SIM or SIM card and service from a local carrier at your destination. Or check with your home carrier regarding international roaming charges."
From the UK iPhone page http://store.apple.com/uk/browse/home/shop_iphone/family/iphone [apple.com]
Its practically ORDERING me to beg my UK friends to send me an iPhone 4...
Yes, the entire world knows the tragedy of the AT&T network, and it seems OBVIOUS that the iPhone deserves to be sold on more than one carrier in the USA, just like pretty much every other country in the world.
But please, can we actually WAIT until this happens, instead of whispering overheard rumours?
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There are some 50 models of blackberry. Apple makes quite a bit more profit than RIM..
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They didn't have a choice in the matter. AT&T was the only one willing to let them do what they wanted with the phone, and without that freedom it wouldn't have been the iPhone. Now that it has completely changed the direction for smartphones, everyone's willing to play ball, but that exclusivity was almost a requirement early on.
How? the same we we get most data. WiFi (Score:2)
How am I supposed to use Hulu's Iphone app if I only have 2GB of data to last me a month?
I am a heavy data user, pretty using the iPhone constantly during the day and then also as I drive to pull up maps over the network from Waze.
Yet, my usage almost never exceeds 200 MB(!) a month. How can this be so?
Because most of the places I am at, have WiFi. If you have any WiFi around where you normally are, in fact it would be quite difficult to reach the 2GB cap.
Also, other carriers are starting to put in caps
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not to mention now bandwidth caps, how am I supposed to use Hulu's Iphone app if I only have 2GB of data to last me a month?
What makes you think that Apple doesnt have a hand in these bandwidth caps?
Apple doesnt want users to go to any HTML5-based alternatives that Apple doesnt get a cut from, for their music/etc. They were against Flash and now that the alternative is picking up some steam, the device cant even be used as a media outlet because of unreasonable caps.
Coincidence? Just sayin'
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Lol, conspiracy much? AT&T was first because they are the only US carrier with Smartphones people actually use data on and they were getting buried.
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Not just that, Apple was asking for the phone company to upgrade their servers for visual voice mail.
Back in 2006 this was a HUGE gamble, Apple had never done a phone before. The iPod was doing well but this was new territory.
Jobs went shopping around and Cingular threw them a 'aww sure, what the hell'. It paid off 10 fold, but it could have easily gone the other way.
small impact, android will trump (Score:4, Insightful)
this will have less of an impact for verizon than people might think. in a year, android will be even more entrenched in their existing user base. for new users, there will be new android offerings that out-gear the iphone 4.
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Assuming that Verizon iPhone would make a big difference would be assuming that the Apple marketing department was insufficient to draw people to Apple + AT&T from Verizon.
So, which side is underestimating Apple marketing?
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Actually the Newton was not doing bad, especially for something that radically different. It was gaining some traction when Steve killed it because he wanted Apple to focus on a much smaller set of products.
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Some of you iDandys may not want one, but I do. I've got my eye on the Droid 2, not the iPhone or the Incredible or the EVO.
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A real keyboard. Some of you iDandys may not want one, but I do. I've got my eye on the Droid 2, not the iPhone or the Incredible or the EVO.
You can use any real full sized blutooth keyboard with an iPhone. Oh, you mean one of those dinky cramped messaging phone keyboards? What if you want to use another language layout? With a virtual onscreen keyboard, you can just switch between layouts with the touch of an onscreen button.
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And for those of us not attempting to take professional photography with our cell phones, and those who don't feel the "magic" of pixel density, and those who want to make video calls while not connected to Wifi, and those who don't have vegetarian-starved thin fingers with which to manipulate a tiny (but immaculately crisp, no doubt) onscreen keyboard, and those who want to use, and wirelessly share, a 7-10 Mbps data connection, all while paying less per month - there's the EVO 4G.
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Hardly any "work" required to have better cameras - most phone manufacturers just take ready 3rd party modules. And nobody has to convince you, I guess, that Apple doesn't really have a presence in digicam development?
Some, Samsung or Sony for example (they are one of the few manufacturers of those modules), might easily have something comparable already. We just wouldn't know so well, without the great hoopla once a year.
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HTC Droid Incredible: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaDE941PzQk [youtube.com]
Nexus One: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2g5J4qPp54 [youtube.com]
Nokia E71: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi1gHDa7-X0 [youtube.com]
Nokia 6230: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_RP7Fn1w8Q [youtube.com]
Nokia 6720: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ7t75Uo6qQ [youtube.com]
Basically, any phone that has an integrated antenna will have diminished signal when you hold them from the bottom instead of how almost everyone in the civ
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Yes, SOME phones have problems with dropped calls when held from the bottom. Please don't try to make the argument that ALL phones have this issue, when it's just SOME phones that have this issue. Including the iPhone 4.
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Just talked for 65 minutes on an iPhone 4 with my finger bridging the antenna gap the entire time.. So?
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We know that all phones will have this issue to some extent--it is an inescapable consequence of the physics of RF and antennas. But it will not be a problem for some people, because it will also depend upon their individual electrical properties. Whether the frequency of such problems is any greater for the iPhone than for other phones remains to be seen. For example, Ars Technica reported "We were able to reproduce this problem consistent [arstechnica.com]
Verizon FUD? (Score:2)
We wouldn't be surprised if this was Verizon's doing, in an attempt to get people to wait before upgrading to the iPhone 4 and extending their AT&T contracts another two years. The carrier has a history of leaked information during sensitive times for its competitors. Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/verizon-iphone-coming-in-january-2010-6#ixzz0sHfifYxg [businessinsider.com]
iPhone commercials advertise the ability to make calls and surf at the same time. AFAIK, you can't do that on Verizon's network.
Re:Verizon FUD? (Score:5, Informative)
A complementary device enhancement known as simultaneous 1X Voice and EV-DO Data (SVDO) will also become available during the same timeframe and will enable CDMA2000 devices to access EV-DO packet data services while in an active 1X circuit-switch voice call.
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Perhaps they are implementing this? http://www.cdg.org/news/press/2009/Aug17_09.asp [cdg.org]
A complementary device enhancement known as simultaneous 1X Voice and EV-DO Data (SVDO) will also become available during the same timeframe and will enable CDMA2000 devices to access EV-DO packet data services while in an active 1X circuit-switch voice call.
So that is a simple upgrade then? Is it backwards compatible with existing devices? If you are going to upgrade every tower anyway, why not go with HSPA+/HSUPA and get near LTE speeds right now and be able to support the iPhone 4 and other existing handsets?
Why (Score:2)
Then they still charge $30 for data. I only use 200 megabytes so why pay more than 15? And what is this crap about $45 is i check corporate email? I do check work email on my phone? If
Blame Verizon (Score:5, Insightful)
> 'It's hard to ignore the quality issues that AT&T has faced.'"
Even harder to ignore that Verizon's closed network only runs Verizon phones.
If Verizon is building LTE then that can run iPhone 4G. Can't see a CDMA iPhone at this late stage. It's been end-of-lifed for quite some time. An iPhone 4G launch on Verizon is an event. Verizon and AT&T competing for iPhone users with the same handsets is an event.
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Uh, Exclusive Deal (And GSM)? (Score:3, Informative)
How can anyone post this when we have the exclusive deal confirmed? http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/ [engadget.com]
And the other is that the last time I checked, Verizon doesn't have GSM. Why would Apple manufacture two different devices, and one that can't be used in all the other world markets? I'm not trying to start a GSM/CDMA holy war, just acknowledging that Apple is doing just fine with AT&T and GSM. Why would they go through all that trouble just to get Verizon customers?
Especially since Verizon seems to insist on branding all phones they offer--I don't see how Steve would accept that either.
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Why would they go through all that trouble just to get Verizon customers?
Because they want to sell more iphones and make even more money? I mean seriously, it's like asking why would Apple go through all the trouble of launching the iphone anywhere but the US. After all they could do quite well by just staying in the US.
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There are plenty of phone manufacturers that make a GSM and a CDMA version of a the same phone. In fact, Samsung is doing just that with their upcoming Android offering, the Galaxy S (and they're planning to release versions of it on 5 of the top 6 US carriers [msn.com]). Did you not catch that there are over 92 million Verizon customers? Then there's also the Sprint, US Cellular, MetroPCS, Alltel et al CDMA carriers. Granted they're not AT&T or Verizon in size, but I'm willing to bet there's at least another 70
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Apple might be concerned about the market place confusion caused by having to sell two different models of phone. I am not sure how big an issue this really is, but it would be something Apple would consider.
Part of the reason Apple is as profitable as they are is by keeping the product choices limited. They are far and away the most profitable handset manufacturer in the world. Even companies with 10x their volume do not come close to the total profit.
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There are also phones that simultaneously do GSM and CDMA. My BlackBerry Tour works on Verizon's network, but can also roam onto just about any GSM network worldwide (and even has a Verizon SIM card, which is a bit of an oddity I suppose)
The phone's a piece of shit otherwise, but it can indeed hop onto both networks, (and make incomprehensibly noisy phone calls, and achieve miserable speeds for its limited selection of worthless apps during its incredibly short battery life).
That's my work phone. My perso
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Don't CDMA iPhones exist outside the USA already?
No. If you are thinking of Bell and Telus in Canada, those carriers launched an HSPA+/HSUPA network (3G) network like other GSM carriers use.
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Re:Uh, Exclusive Deal (And GSM)? (Score:5, Informative)
In Japan, NTT Docomo sell iPhone and has been for a while. NTT Docomo uses Wideband CDMA (WCDMA), so there's already CDMA version of the iPhone. Anyone that knows the cell phone industry knows supporting GSM/TDMA and CDMA/WCDMA is required for global rollout. Europe is still dominated by GSM/TDMA, while much of asia uses WCDMA/CDMA for the extra capacity and bandwidth. Don't take my word for it, just ask wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTT_DoCoMo)
Oh, my goodness. WCDMA is the air interface for HSPA which AT&T calls 3G. WCDMA has nothing to do with the CDMA which Verizon and Sprint use which is called CDMA2000. Other names for 3G are HSPA, UMTS and FOMA. NTT DoCoMo is "NOT" the official iPhone carrier, Softbank is the official iPhone carrier. I roamed on NTT DocCoMo when I was in Tokyo with my iPhone 3GS.
There is only one type of iPhone which is a GSM (Edge) and HSPA (UMTS) device. CDMA != WCDMA. Do you understand?
Go look on Wikipedia. WCDMA is linked with HSPA/UMTS/FOMA "NOT" CDMA aka CDMA2000.
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No, they don't make a phone that is "CDMA", as in "It will work with Verizon's CDMA network". They make a phone that is CDMA, as in "It uses WCDMA to access the radio network, the same as all other 3G UMTS phones".
You're being confused by the fact that they're calling it a CDMA phone, which means something entirely different over there than it does in the US.
Uh huh. (Score:5, Funny)
And 2011 will finally be the year of Linux on the desktop.
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More bullshit to drum up ad hits (Score:2)
Apple and AT&T have an exclusivity agreement until 2012 (insert end of the world jokes here). Steve has said more than once back in 2007 that this was so. Expect a Verizon phone announcement 2012, unless AT&T ponies up a huge amount of cash to redo the agreement. Apple won't end the agreement because I bet there is a huge money clause that says Apple will have to pay thru the nose if they break that agreement.
This is from a business website, and I believe the last prediction which was that it wou
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I'd like to see the text of the agreement. I suspect they could break it very easily by not calling the new phone an "iPhone", or by offering it indirectly through another company, or by simply licensing the iPhone technology to other Cellular companies to manufacture their own phone, or...
Errm, I doubt Apple would let go any control over their phone to get out of a contract with AT&T - I'm sure they have a clause in the contract that makes it much easier.
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I'd like to see the text of the agreement. I suspect they could break it very easily by not calling the new phone an "iPhone"
Yes, I'm sure that AT&T's lawyers were dumb enough not to close the "Name it the vPhone and we can get around the agreement!" loophole or any of the other loopholes you mentioned.
Instead of assuming that AT&T hires stupid lawyers I think that it's more likely that the agreement between Apple and AT&T allows either company to break the contract by paying some sort of penalty. This is pretty standard between large corporations. Of course, it would have to be a large penalty so that the agreement c
Till LTE does us part (Score:2)
These rumors have been around for how many years now? I bet Apple will just wait another year or so and then LTE-capable iPhone model will be born (iPhone 5 anyone?) which, OMG, really finally _will_ be Verizon capable.
Sprint will be out of luck for a while due to different provisioning and absence of clear LTE rollout plans (WiMax is pretty much out of luck, and even Clear was saying something like "Well, we can switch to LTE if we really want to", so no iPhone support for WiMax)
On record that AT&T is exclusive until 2012 (Score:2)
Maybe announced in 2012, but Apple is on record in court filings related to a 2007 case over AT&T lock-in that AT&T has exclusivity to the iPhone until 2012 [cnn.com]
I'm sure they could buy their way out, but why do that when they could just wait one more year and still sell a shit load of devices?
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The iPhone seems to be on it's way to becoming a niche device in the long term unless something changes. Perhaps occupying a niche is exactly what Apple wants, some fans have commented that they believe this. If not, expanding to additional US carriers is the only way to compete with Android's quickly growing market share. We're already seeing saturation with over 75% of iPhone 4 purchasers being previous iPhone users (the highest repeat buyer rate of any iPhone release). Meanwhile Android is adding 160
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We're already seeing saturation with over 75% of iPhone 4 purchasers being previous iPhone users (the highest repeat buyer rate of any iPhone release)
Where does it say the iPhones being replaced will all go into the trash can?
More likely they will be resold or given away and used by someone else, who may or may not already have an iPhone. Let's do some math. 1.7M new phones sold last weekend. 75% of that would be 1.275M upgraders who now possess a spare iPhone. Even if half of them DO just chuck out their o
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Android adds 640k users every four days. The number of used iphones going onto new contracts is not really significant. The ratio of new vs old customers compared to past devices is the important detail.
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"even during the iPhone 4 launch". Apple sold 1.7M in 3 days... So 566,666/day. So you're claiming that over 400,000 of those users are JUST upgrading an existing iPhone?
[citation needed]
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no. 75% of the 1.7M iPhone purchasers were upgrading an older iphone. only 425k of the iphone 4 purchasers were new iphone users. in those same 3 days (on average, based on the latest sales number) Android added 480k new users.
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part 2.. the references:
77% of iphone 4 purchases were existing iphone users:
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/06/25/77-of-iphone-4-sales-were-upgrades/ [cnn.com]
Android selling 160,000 units per day:
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/44041.php [cellular-news.com]
sorry forgot to include in previous post
Where's the damn SEC? (Score:2, Insightful)
Only Madoff could run a game as long as Verizon is.
If Verizon is to get the iPhone... (Score:2)
...Apple will need to take a pay cut. Apple needs Verizon more than Verizon needs Apple )inorder to crush the Android competition). Verizon is doing very well with their Android phones, so hey don't need to pay the kings ransom that AT&T does for the iPhone. Without the iPhone, AT&T is nothing, and everyone knows it. Apple will want Verizon to pay the same kind of subsidies that AT&T is paying. Verizon is unlikely to comply. It doesn't make much business sense for them to abandon a popular
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No, Apple doesn't need Verizon. They need millions of people who are locked into the App Store ecosystem, and between the tens of millions of iPhones sold, the millions of iPod Touches, and the millions of iPads - they've got all that and more.
And because of the App Store, virtually all of those users will stay yoked to their device and its upgrade path forever.
Verizon's 92 million subscribers are tempting, and if all 92 million of them were going to get iPhones it would be compelling. But they aren't. M
Much more likely to be LTE. (Score:2)
It is much more likely that if Apple were to release an iPhone for Verizon that it would be an LTE device. It could then be a cornerstone for Verizon's new LTE network which is launching in late 2010/2011.
CDMA is a dead-end, there aren't any new rollouts and the existing carriers are all abandoning it for GSM/UMTS/LTE networks.
So, the question is - is there enough business on Verizon to interest Apple enough to work with a dead-end radio?
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The new iPad with cum in your rentina display, with 64GB of gay porn, from Steve "oh Jeez" Jobs.
Actually you'd have a lot better luck getting gay porn on an Android phone.
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That would be awesome. Then we could bitch about the clusterfuck that 10 million viPhone users on Verizon's network caused. Seriously - if you have several thousand people on a cell all trying to stream their own Pandora channels, you're going to have issues no matter what color the tower is.