“USA Today published a weak bit of sensationalism under the guise of journalism, strongly suggesting there was some basis for believing that Apple would partner with Verizon Wireless to deliver an iPhone capable of working on Verizon’s network. That’s wrong,” Daniel Eran Dilger writes for RoughlyDrafted.
“There is no chance of an iPhone for Verizon. Apple is having enough difficulty delivering optimized UMTS 3G support; rolling out a 3G EVDO version of the iPhone would result in 80 million Americans having the option of switching to the iPhone without changing to AT&T, but that would also ground the high voltage differential that is streaming premium data users to AT&T, a flow that is both sparking free press and higher profits around the iPhone,” Dilger writes.
“CDMA/EVDO will essentially be dead in just two years, as far as data-rich smartphones go. Verizon is aiming at building out a new LTE network to deliver a really fast mobile network that can keep up with AT&T’s. Currently, Verizon does offer better 3G coverage in certain areas of the US, but that’s where the puck is, not where it’s going. EVDO will be EDGE two years from now. In 2011, Apple doesn’t want to be back in 2007 again,” Dilger writes.
“The fact that Cauley’s article in USA Today — which was uncritically repeated by everyone else as news — was filled out by the prattling of Roger Entner, the phone industry’s version of Rob Enderle, should have been a sign. Entner is a paid shill of Verizon. He worked very hard to bad mouth the iPhone at every opportunity at its launch and has ever since,” Dilger writes. “there actually is a reason for suggesting that Verizon will get an iPhone sometime soon. That’s to mislead people and make Verizon customers relax from their ready-to-jump poise. Why switch to the iPhone now when you can wait and see if it shows up on Verizon’s network sometime real soon now? It’s a Microsoft tactic called vaporware…”
Much, much more in the full article here.
