LaVallee reports, “In fact, it’s not up to the carrier, suggested Ivan Seidenberg, chief executive of Verizon Communications. ‘This is a decision that is exclusively in Apple’s court,’ he said during Verizon’s third-quarter earnings call. ‘We obviously would be interested at any point in the future they thought it would make sense for them to have us as a partner. And so we will leave it with them on that score.'”
LaVallee reports, “‘What they have done has been successful, so we have to sit back and give them credit for that,’ he said. ‘Our view is to broaden the base of choice for customers, and hopefully along the way, Apple, as well as others, will decide to jump on the bandwagon.’Rival carrier AT&T is the exclusive carrier for the iPhone in the U.S.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lynn W.” for the heads up.]
Hope springs eternal..
Shoulda, coulda, woulda… Verizon spurned them now they want them? Eat dirt Verizon!
They had their chance and blew it. Now that they are getting their rear ends handed to them they are “interested”. I would like to see Apple end the exclusive deal, but Verizon would be the last one I would offer it to.
Just saying…
Now he says choice. Sounds like Ballmer to me.
iPhone on Verizon’s dirt old network??? Enough said.
Verizon has started a negative ad campaign against iPhone and Apple…Do they really think that that’s the way to change things???
Even if Apple drops exclusivity with ATT, I’d bet Verizon get the big middle finger for their attitude coupled with their initial arrogance.
They had their chance and blew it. They might have had a second chance, but they preferred the low road.
CDMA has some advantages. I believe Verizon will have problems when they go GSM. The coverage is less so they will need lots more towers. Just because more people use GSM, that doesn’t necessarily make it better (think windows).
If Verizon thinks that Apple is going to jump on their bandwagon they are dumber than I thought. Apple will try to get their phone on T-Mobile or some other carrier before they go to Verizon. Verizon still needs to loose a few more customers before they get their head out of their rears. They, like a lot of anal-ists, think an iPhone killer will show up eventually, but they are all wrong. The Droid phone will sell, but will not have the success for Verizon that the iPhone would. Verizon management is like the music industry management, clueless.
This is news?
In other news mcdonalds still interested in food
You might as well go home V, Breeze speaks for Apple.
He isn’t just offering opinion, he has Apple’s ear.
Verizon is not going gsm, and research shows CDMA has more top end potential than gsm
Based on their Droid ad and “the ball is in Apple’s court” attitude, it does not appear to me that the situation has substantially changed from a few years ago (other than AT&T gaining millions of new high dollar customers).
This is clearly an attempt to manipulate public perception of Verizon as the “good guy” willing to abolish that nasty old (lucrative) AT&T exclusivity for the benefit of everyone (especially Verizon). Droid is vaporware at this point as far as I can tell. Unless Droid comes through in a big way (unlike the Pre), Verizon is in a very weak position. If Droid hits it big, then Apple will finally might have some worthy competition on its hands.
I saw the iDon’t Droid commercials. Verizon is fine. They have nothing to fear except fear itself… and bankruptcy.
1. Fear
2. Bankruptcy
3. Stockholder revolt.
Those are the only things Verizon has to fear… along with epic failure.
Balls in their court doesn’t mean they’ve given everything and Apple’s standing in the way. It means they’ve given everything they are WILLING to give, and Apple can take it or leave it. Clever how they can make it sound like Apple alone is the barrier!
Example: We use the wrong network standards so you’d need a whole different phone model. We’ll pay you half what AT&T;does. Take it or leave it. Ball’s in your court, Apple!
Piss on em. Let them eat precake
Okay, Apple. This is simple: Take out the GSM guts and put in some CDMA guts. Then sell it to Verizon.
People aren’t stupid. I’ll know that I can’t use it overseas. I don’t care. Me wants an iPhone!
This is business decision, and not personal.
Verizon rejected Apple out of ignorance.
Jobs knew he was standing on the threshold of a revolution and the price to play was too dear for Verizon.
Imagine how different history might have been had Verizon agreed to the terms?
What everyone needs to realize is that the iPhone system transcends the carrier’s meme of the telephone, which is quite evident in AT&T;’s lack of data infrastructure.
The iPhone will be available on every carrier in a couple of years. In the meantime, isn’t about time for Apple to make the OS available for all smartphones?
Until the rest of the world uses CDMA, which isn’t going to happen given the investment in the infrastructure, Verizon is just going to be an obscure US company (to the rest of the world). I personally don’t care if the iPhone is sold through Verizon (and given Verizon’s history with technology, I can’t see them opening the floodgates to the iPhone paradigm of cell phones, in that the carrier is just a commodity and the phone is what matters). But Apple needs to stay with ATT, because I need international coverage.
@me. GSM may not be better in some ways, but it is better in others. It isn’t like Windows, which has some good points, but a lot of bad ones. Also GSM is a standard, like Firewire or USB, it is not owned by one company. There is a lot of competition between companies that develop GSM products, whether it’s phones, switches, or whatever. GSM and CDMA are essentially equivalent on quality (with advantages and disadvantages of each). That GSM is the worldwide standard for mobile phones makes it the hands down winner. CDMA is going to be moved aside over time, because the US market, though big, cannot support the massive R&D;required to move mobile phones into 4G, 5G, and whatever comes down the road. It’s a matter of economics. The costs of the next GSM technology is spread over several billion users. CDMA is spread over some 70 million users in the US (and a couple of other countries)
I think this is code for “we’re not upgrading our entire infrastructure just for the iPhone. You want to be on Verizon, you need to make a phone that runs on our network.”
Somehow, I just can’t quite believe Apple will make a version that runs on Verizon’s network–too confusing for the customer. “Do you want the AT&T;version of the phone, or the Verizon version of the phone? Oh, and if you ever want to switch carriers, you need to buy a new phone.” Very un-Apple.
How does that crow taste Verizon?
I guess blackberry, android, and palm are no match for the iPhone, huh?
If Apple eventually partners with Verizon, then they might as well do Sprint as well. I believe they both have cdma based networks.
If he really meant it, he would have come totally clean and said Verizon made a mistake not getting on board with the iPhone.
Michael Dell has also stated he would love to put OS X on a Dell machine.
Everybody want to be a magnet on Apple’s refrigerator now that Apple is proven successful amidst their proven long-term vision for what consumers need.
Ballmer is solely about fund-gaining…Jobs is about invention and changing the world…the funds always follow.
Huh? It is not a carrier issue that the iPhone is not on the Verzion network?
Hey, you turned it down! What?
Next Verizon will be saying that they give their customers a choice by allowing features and innovation!
Yea, like actually backing up one of their cell phones to one’s own computer and not on their stupid servers!
But it is nice that this locked in agreement is beating the hell out of them in the PR side. Good- they need it.
and when no one can compete or come close in innovation, they all decide that the best way to go is to “take Apple apart” (what a fart)…
Thus the Pystar lame effort to challenge/ force Apple’s IP out of it’s control, the Eric Schmidt insider ( board member) analysis that brought Google to chrome and android, and MS’s chicken with no head recent blitz, to name some only.
Apple and Jobs learned their lesson well years ago and even if the whole industry tries to pry it’s IP from them Apple knows how to stay it’s course and keep it’s ever loyal users happy, satisfied, and ahead of the curve. They’re just going to have to do their homework and excel (no pun intended) on their own.
So Verizon is the bandwagon to jump on?
From what I see, CDMA is a trainwreck.
“Shoulda, coulda, woulda… Verizon spurned them now they want them? Eat dirt Verizon!”
A+!