It is simply amazing. iPhone is okay and would be better with Verizon. Apple going exclusive with At&T will in time be viewed as one of the worst business decisions ever.
Not even possibly true. People often fail to realize Apple wouldn't have the sales/global-reach it has now if it had gone exclusive with Verizon (non GSM) for the same term. Moreover, the phone would be completely different. We can't reconstruct the past from one decision, but its very arguable that Verizon has only become more open to compete with the iPhone (remember that CDMA carriers are more "closed" than GSM carriers by their nature). Were it to have had the iPhone from the start (and miraculously given in to the same demands Cingular was desperate to give in to... read: not likely), today's market would simply not be the same. Remember, stagnation had begun to set-in, and Verizon's smartphone selection has historically been very, very narrow (for a reason).
Would the iPhone do even BETTER on Verizon, were they to support CDMA next year? Of course. Verizon would get a huge benefit, and Apple would expand even further.
That said, I think the Android is great, and has a bright future (though frought with
potential problems). I'm surprised any iPhone user could, with a straight-face, view the entire Android experience and say its better though. Other than the marvelous turn-by-turn GPS implementation Google plans to offer to Apple and its other partners... there is a long list of "preferred" issues where Android fails miserably (whether its removing apps, installing content/videos, backups, iTunes integration, app management, overall UI, and phone-wide app & content search).
It's interesting, because SO much about Android is right... but then you run into "break-downs" where... if you've used an iPhone... you have to consciously ignore significant issues / oversights, its a disappointment. Ironically, many people get irate at the iPhone for being "so close" and then not doing a few extra things they'd like. I think the Android phones (including the Droid) will begin to encounter these observations as more of a slow realization.
~ CB
