Why all the hubbub about Verizon and the iPhone? Who cares!? Verizon seems to be doing just fine without the most overrated piece of electronics ever to come out. I still don’t understand why the media continues to insist the iPhone is something so special and great, when it is far from that, when consumers have been eating up Android for the past year. If you like being controlled by an egotistical, anal retentive control freak, yes the iPhone is great for you. But for the rest of us Android is great.
Steve- the only ones who care are those who are deliberating to buy a Verizon brand iphone. Those who have no intention of buying the Verizon iphone and post here are just people who enjoy conflict. Scott was right when he posted briefly that anything is rumor until it is officially announced by the two companies. I agree with that but the real debate for me is the
rumor credible or not. One can go through life in a state of denial or can speculate the future based on probabilities of credible rumor.
diogen- I have never agreed with the ways the media compare a single iphone sales penetration to a collection of multiple phones by competing companies or all phones with OS. That is only a fair comparison when comparing market share for companies. It is a good way to compare when one wants to diminish the impact Apple has had in the market, or to try and reduce the sales impact the phone has had. Lets compare the Droid Incredible to the iphone 4. We'll even give the Droid phone a one month lead in when it hit the market compared to the iphone 4. Which
phone has achieved greater market share? I think, without even looking up the data that the single iphone 4 will have greater sales than any other single phone. The reason for it's popularity, is that the average person who wants to have a "smart" phone or one to access e-mail, surf the web and support apps, want a simple don't need to think about it phone. The main hold up to further growth of iphone has been the exclusivity with a lame AT&T. Had AT&T performed as they should, we wouldn't have so many people just waiting to jump ship as soon as they can to Verizon.
What is expected increase due to having CDMA and GSM? I don't think that is the point. The real question is what will be the total increase in sales when Apple is no longer tied to exclusive with AT&T in the US. The fact they had to use CDMA to expand is not material. The real game is gaining access to Verizon customer base and their network. Plus prevent more people so angry with AT&T that they jumped to Android phones just to be on what they think is a better network.
I agree with you about Apple ending up in Microsoft's shoes. MS is in real trouble. Cloud computing will be the next nail in their coffin. For Apple, all it will take is for Steve Jobs to leave the company and it will suffer the worst setback it has ever had. At this point Apple has no real problems. The company is on a roll. But to remain smart, one needs to be on the sell trigger the moment Steve is in trouble. He is the center of that company's success. BTW- I just saw a segment on Oprah where she declared the ipad the single most important invention in the past century.