All the matches are set already; can Apple go anywhere?

[coolwater]

Exclusive or not, the landscape seems pretty much set now:


AT&T = iPhone

Verizon = Blackberry

Sprint = Palm Pre

T-mobile = Google Android


Can Verizon ditch Blackberry and sign with Apple in reality?

Or, will the 'exclusivity' become thing of the past?

 

[Nicolecat]

I think exclusivity is borderline market 'monopoly'

I hope it dissolves soon.

 

[MikeyTree]

Verizon will never "ditch blackberry." Verizon already has a huge customer base who use blackberries, and it would be a moronic business decision to abandon them.

However, it's possible that in a year or two Verizon may also carry the iPhone in addition to its other phones. That's what AT&T does, after all. We'd have to wait until the AT&D exclusivity has expired, and until the iPhone and Verizon both upgrade to compatible 4g standards.

 

[profets]

Don't all carriers sell Blackberrys?

If anything, once we see LTE become mainstream with all carriers (minus Sprint of course), the iPhone could possibly be sold with several carriers.