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Verizon, 4G and iPhones
cgriffin21 writes "Verizon plans to launch its 4G LTE network in 38 major U.S. metropolitan areas by year's end, in an ambitious rollout that will also drape high-speed mobile broadband coverage over 60 airports." Not coincidentally, everyone and their brother is talking about
iPhone on Verizon in 2011, and what that
means to Android.
That said, you wouldn't know a real leak from the constant rumors unless someone looses an iPhone at a bar that has Verizon in the top bar instead of AT&T
jeez a FOUR DIGITAL /. ID, and still you can't spell.
Bad analogy is bad.
RIM is pretty well dead. They'll hang on like Palm at this point.
Android would have come out and had its users but when I upgraded my phone before I got my Droid, I would have purchased an iPhone if it were available on Verizon, and I may not have purchased the Droid if it were available when I upgraded that time.
AT&T/Apple stumbled, and Google was able to take advantage of it.
And those that are expiring now are mostly turning to the Droid. There are a few holdouts (my parents for two) that are waiting for the iPhone on Verizon. Don't get me wrong, it will be a hot seller, but Android isn't going away anytime soon.
Great. Prove me wrong. I've already given my reasons why I'm right.
So much FAIL here I don't really know where to start.
Uhh.. There is a constant swarm of people with contracts expiring. What a stupid thing to say.
Yes, and they're mostly going to get Android phones now. Anyone who had their contract expire in the past year has been able to get an Android phone. Those on two year contracts may be expiring soon and maybe they will want an iPhone.
This makes no sense. Of course there will be huge incentives for contracts, just like with any other phone.
What incentives exist for the iPhone on AT&T now? None.
That's half the equation, yes. The other half is verizon customers wanting an iPhone.
But in that case, the net number of iPhone devices remains the same. There's no gain for Apple.
iPhone has way more apps, and the "openness" means precisely nothing to 99% of regular customers.
Apples and ..err.. Droids. The Apple app store has been around far longer than Android's. The Android app store has really only been gaining traction in the past year and the quality of apps and number have been steadily increasing. Google even has the app inventor and a very open marketplace. The openness means that a larger variety of apps are available, increasing customer choice.
Unless you thing having 400 different fart apps is choice.
I got an iPhone 4 last July too, and I love it. Androids UI is slow and clunky, unrefined. It's also missing the apps I use on a daily basis (Netflix, Comcast, a couple others). It doesn't auto hyperlink phone numbers in the browser either, how ancient.
Says me. You cannot replace the kernel, meaning no real OS replacements. This means when motorola stops supporting it you are screwed, unlike say a G1 which can run 2.2 even though support for it ended long ago, since cyanogenmod 6 is available for it.
RIM is doing just fine in the corporate and governmental world.
Neither are exactly growth markets. Those groups already have Blackberries and they're not going to do anything but go down. RIM has gone from 36% of the smartphone market at the beginning of the year to 21% in August, all that was loss to the Android who went from 8% to 19%. iPhone usage was pretty stable.
So you are taking your own decisions and applying them to the millions of people that are part of the smartphone market?
Since I was one of the people that would have bought an iPhone if it were available on Verizon and instead bought a Droid? Yeah. And the millions of people who have also bought Droid devices in the past year seem to agree with me.
Could Apple have gotten the phone to market the way they wanted without going exclusive?
Who knows? Maybe the iPhone was the straw that broke Verizon's back on allowing open handsets.
I've already replied to your presumed counterpoints; you're adding nothing but stupidity to the discussion.
iPhones are only $99 if you disregard the cost of the contract. If you do, you're an idiot.
Hmm... Let's see what I wrote, shall we?
"iPhones are $99, $199, and $299, with a two year contract."
Well, sheee-it. Did you even read the post you replied to? It's not like the two-year contract is some sort of iPhone-only thing, it applies to all smartphones. You can buy it unsubsidized for $500+ (like the Droid X, which is $570), or buy it at a lower price with a contract.
The only idiocy here is anyone who seems to think that contracts are some sort of downside for the iPhone in relation to Android.
Since you insist on being an idiot, I can only assume you work in marketing, and evidently you do:
You do realize your ass isn't a oracle, and you can't just accept everything that you pull out of it as a fact, right?
it's patently untrue that the iPhone is the best phone in the world
Correct. But they are the best smartphone in the world.
if your fingers get wet and cold, it's practically useless.
What the fuck? What did I tell you about making stuff up?
Since those drawbacks are pretty extreme, it's simply not the best phone in the world.
Those are imaginary drawbacks that don't even make any sense. It's ludicrous to claim that "wet and cold" hands are some sort of huge issue with the iPhone.
It's just more pleasant to use in a very limited number of situations.
When you're ready to quit making shit up and actually making honest points, do let me know won't you?