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More Confirmation Verizon iPhone to Launch on January 11th
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704739504576068170230339348.html?mod=e2tw
Just reading the tweets and media sites
It's like "pass it on.." within an hour..a speculation..an invite..now confirmed to be the iPhone by every individual all over the web..forgot confirmed Steve will be in NY as well.
This is all proof from somebody who knows sombody...
Just reading the tweets and media sites
It's like "pass it on.." within an hour..a speculation..an invite..now confirmed to be the iPhone by every individual all over the web..forgot confirmed Steve will be in NY as well.
This is all proof from somebody who knows sombody...
Forced? Yes, poor Apple for being forced to have access to a market of 93,000,000 in the US plus more in Asia
Would they bother releasing a cdma iPhone 4 this late? If so then that means no cdma update in June right?
I know but if it happens it still just feels odd! I thought they might announce the new iPad and have the Verizon iPhone be the "one more thing". Problem is Apple would want them each to have their own spotlight time.
So if the 11th is the Verizon iPhone then when will they announce the iPad 2? Feb probably? Please don't make me wait till March Apple!
I've been waiting for over a year!Unless they can get VoLTE finalized. Or they could always just use LTE for data and a dual band chip for voice.
Did Apple announce the iPad for Verizon? If not, then why would people assume Apple would announce the iPhone for Verizon?
Bc John gruber confirmed it.
Doesn't matter. At any time over the years the lawyers could have negotiated any number of things from a reduced exclusive timetable to buyouts to performance markers. Just because it may have been a 5 year deal at one point doesn't mean that it can't be negotiated away.
AFAIK, gsm is dominant in singapore, malaysia, taiwan, china. i'm gonna guess everywhere in asia but japan.
Did Apple announce the iPad for Verizon? If not, then why would people assume Apple would announce the iPhone for Verizon?
Maybe because verizon is just selling a wifi iPad along with a verizon mifi, verizon service is not actually in the iPad, it's a separate component the iPad attaches too.. Heck, I have been attaching my iPad to my verizon phone months before they did that so that's not really big news, the iPhone on verizon, that's big news.
Google is probably shaking in it's boots right now. Many potential android customers will now be opting for an iPhone. Now we will be able to get some real numbers as to which platform consumers prefer. The only reason anyone gets android is because they are on Verizon, I don't think I know anyone on AT&T with android.
If I had a dollar for everytime WSJ said there would be a Verizon iPhone, I'd have enough to buy two orders of spicy nuggets from Wendy's and two orders of the new "sea salt" fries...if you guess enough eventually you'll get it right...
GSM isn't dominant in China. CDMA has around a 40-50% foothold in China, and is the dominant service in Korea and Japan as well. CDMA was first launched in Hong Kong, too, and is still popular there.
No, but I monitor my investments on a regular basis and occasionally make changes to my mix based on how things are progressing.
AAPL's recent performance reassures me that I should continue holding onto this stock.
And now, finally someone posts the reason why Apple wants to be on Verizon. This will really kill Android's market share.
Yawn. We've been here so many times before. Listen Rockefeller, no-one cares about your two AAPL shares. Why do you feel the need to keep carping on to everyone about this? Does your huge stake in Apple get you a seat on the board?
Course he isn't, he just needs a way of crowbarring his share ownership into an unrelated thread
That remains to be seen. I notice many here are confident that the only reason anyone bought an Android phone is because the iPhone was not available on Verizon, but we won't really know what the effect will be until many months or even years after it is introduced. You have to assume that almost everyone that owns an Android phone is not happy with it and won't upgrade to another one when their contract is up.
There is no doubt that a Verizon iPhone will have some impact on the growth of Android, but to assume that it is game over for Google and all of the Android handset builders is pretty unrealistic. Maybe it will cause Google to cease Android development and destroy the Android handset builders, but I will believe it when I see it. There is plenty of room in the market for more then one strong player.
Assuming that a Verizon iPhone means a one platform smartphone future is a bit short sighted.