AT&T iPhone Exclusivity to Expire in June 2010?

[Ammo]

The iPhone will not be appearing on Verizon's network anytime soon. Don't be surprised that it Apple sells it on both AT&T and TMobile in 2010 in the US.

Apple won't to own the complete life cycle of the iPhone and not have to deal with Verizon (who cripples every phone). Once a year Apple releases a new iPhone, which has a one year life cycle.

Verizon would want to advertise/market the iPhone on their network, which is something that Apple does not want.

The segmentation of the Android market place will do nothing but keep the iPhone in the number on spot for sometime. Hell, the Droid is already seeing competition from other Android phones.

Meanwhile the iPhone has no competition.

*sigh*

Does the Droid look crippled to you? Or the Blackberry Storm 2? Tour? New Curve? Droid Eris? Any of the new phones?

Verizon is basically letting up on crippling smartphones. WHEN (bold prediction) the iPhone comes to Verizon it will be crippled in no way shape or form.

Of course the Droid has competition from other Android phones...every Verizon Android phone is going to be called the Droid!

And yes, I'm one of those guys who loves Apple but will get a Droid if they don't bring the iPhone to Verizon instead of switching to at&t.

 

[butterfly0fdoom]

We'll just have to wait and see. No one believed they would get a city wired this year for initial testing (much less two) and they did. I can't see basing one company on a completely different company (like saying why consider OS X, microsoft has been making a less than stellar operating system over the years and can't seem to get it right). My guess, and strickly a guess, is if it were to come to Verizon, it would be dual channel cdma with LTE for data only(if it's available in your area). I think you will see Verizon swapping the channel cards in the towers, not that hard to do, but will be a good $1000 a piece to buy. That would enable SVDO and quadruple capacity on the existing network. I figure they will do it anyway and keep the phones dual band (cdma and LTE). Let the LTE group sort out the codec and stuff (hopefully a good one).
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CDMA/EV-DO for voice and LTE for data is their plan, which would indeed help them be able to roll-out LTE faster as they can dump the tech in the towers and then start upgrading for more bandwidth, but even then, I don't really see that as being a full-rollout since it's not being used to its full capacity. But that's just my take; it's clearly an outlier in the spectrum of perspective.