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Verizon iPhone Rumored For Early Next Year
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.'"
Who cares? Verizon already has a nice selection of phones which are superior to the iPhone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL7yD-0pqZg
Who wouldn't want to have a cellphone:
* That is defective by design with the shitty antenna design
* Fake and poorly implemented multi-tasking
* Outdated OS compared to Android
* A raging control freak in charge of every single piece of content for the phone
LOL! iPhone...
There are already Android offerings that out-gear the iPhone 4.
Name one. The iPhone 4's 5 Megapixel camera has a better quality sensor and focus mechanism for macro shots than the 8 Megapixel Android phones. The iPhone's new display has the highest pixel density of any phone out on the market.
Jesus was a compassionate social conservative who called individuals to sin no more.
I think your fondness of the iPhone has caused you to miss the point I am trying to make, I'll reiterate it, try to hear this with an open mind. I'm not trying to insult your phone or it's manufacturer, I'm just observing a clear market trend.
Yes, 25% of the people who bought an iPhone 4 at release choice the device over another platform.
However (and this is the important part), this is a lower percentage of new users than we saw on every preceding iPhone release. It follows a downward trend from the 3, to the 3gs, to the 4. There could be many reasons for this, but saturation of the customer base is a very likely contributor if not the primary cause. Other contributors could be that many 2 year contracts on existing iphones were coming due, so the number of renewals was inflated.
Whatever the reason, we see that the Android platform is adding new users at a rate *every single day* that exceeds the rate the Apple platform saw during iPhone 4's opening weekend. Not only this, but the rate at which new users are coming to Android is increasing dramatically with each passing month.
This shows that there are many potential purchasers of smartphones in the world, and Android is drawing in more of them than the iPhone is. Even with the excitement surrounding the new iPhone 4, Android pulls in more new users.
Android will soon have more users than the iPhone does unless something is done to change the current trend. One of the easiest ways to add new users to the iPhone platform is to make it available to more people.
This is why I believe a Verizon iPhone is more likely than ever before. It makes more commercial sense than it did in the past, and it seems the only hope Apple has of adding a large number of new users. It may be that Apple has no interest in adding as many users as Android is adding, I don't know.
-Lod