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Getting it too late

Once more, rumors of an iPhone for Verizon. The time for that, guys, was three years ago. That is why Android phones have been outselling iPhones.

I would have happily bought an iPhone. Years ago.

10 Responses to “Getting it too late”

  1. Jake Says:

    I would have happily bought an iPhone. Years ago.

    Same here. I’m glad I didn’t, though. I like my Palm Pre much better than I think I’d like the iPhone.

  2. mikee Says:

    I recall about a decade ago sitting in a factory-wide meeting at Motorola, here in Austin, where the factory manager took questions. The first one was from a guy who lifted his cell phone over his head and asked why he could not buy a Motorola cell phone cover in the colors of the University of Texas. Or in any color but black. Unless he bought it from a non-Motorola vendor. No more open questions to the manager in big meetings after that.

    The blindness of corporations to customer demand has a history as long as customers have walked up to the sales counters and asked to look at products.

  3. Bryan S. Says:

    I cant say that I want google any further into my life. Cant say apple is that much better, but think my data is a tad more secure on an iphone than a droid.

    Now, if Win mobile 7 would come out on a phone I didnt have to have a data plan on (I’m cheap like that… my phone has wifi but no 3G), I would be all over it.

  4. alan Says:

    I’m not holding my breath on a Verizon iPhone. Apple STILL can make enough iPhones to meet the demand for GSM networks. Why on earth would they make a separate and incompatible phone for a CDMA network.

    I think we’ll see iPhones on Verizon when they convert to LTE.

    I’d love to be wrong about that though. I hate AT&T.

  5. Weer'd Beard Says:

    “I would have happily bought an iPhone. Years ago.”
    I would have been miserable!

    BIG #1, no hard keypad (HTC Tilt and Droid2 both have those)

    #2. I went through about 4 batteries on my Tilt. I bought them cheap on Amazon, and installed them myself. I can’t do either of those things with an iPhone. I know people who can….I’m not one of those people.

  6. Sebastian Says:

    There are chips that can do both GSM and CDMA. I’m going to guess the next version of the iPhone will do both. There will still only be one version, you can just use it on either a GSM or CDMA provider.

    The exclusivity agreement with AT&T was too long, but that was necessary because Apple wanted to retain control over their product, and the cell phone makers had certain ways of doing things, and branding phones. AT&T was the only provider who agreed to play the game the way Apple wanted to, but only in exchange for exclusivity for a number of years.

    It was probably necessary for Apple to agree, but I’m sure Steve Jobs now wishes he negotiated them down a year on the expiration date on the exclusivity.

  7. Guav Says:

    I don’t know … I know quite a few Verizon diehards who have Droids who will grab an iPhone the minute it comes to Verizon. And I, for one, will get a new iPhone and switch to Verizon—and I’m sure there are TONS of people like me.

  8. Sean Sorrentino Says:

    “I would have happily bought an iPhone. Years ago.”

    me too. Not now. I like my Droid and iPhone and Apple can get bent.

  9. Brett Says:

    I left ATT and the Iphone when I moved to NC and was outside of ATT’s 3G coverage. Luckily the OG Droid was coming out within a couple weeks so I switched.

    The Iphone WAS the best phone on the market. After getting used to the Droid, I can honestly say that they are, at the very least, valid substitutes for each other.

    Now that I know that, and now that Apple told the customers to screw off with the antenna problems, I am perfectly happy with my Droid (now Droid X).

    You are correct, too late for Apple. I probably would have still been one of the fan boys if Verizon had their phone when I needed the coverage.

  10. McThag Says:

    I have a Droid 2 I am very happy with. I think it compares very favorably against the iPhone; so I don’t see a reason to jump to the next shiniest thing.

    By the time my contract is up, I will likely be vested in my Android apps and unwilling to change to unfamiliar Apple versions (if there is one).

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