“Major sticking points in negotiations between Verizon and Apple have reportedly been the wireless carrier’s interest in allowing retail partners to sell the iPhone, and Verizon’s promotion of its V Cast digital video-on-demand store. Overnight, The Wall Street Journal filled in some of the holes in its story filed Wednesday afternoon, adding new details of a purported Verizon-compatible CDMA iPhone,” Sam Oliver reports for AppleInsider.
“The report also [alleged] that Apple and Verizon butted heads over a number of issues, including the wireless carrier’s V Cast digital video store,” Oliver reports. “‘Verizon, in those earlier discussions, balked at Apple’s requirement that Verizon not allow its retail partners to sell the phone, people familiar with the discussion said at the time,’ the report said. ‘Verizon also declined to give up its ability to sell content like music and videos through its proprietary service, these people said.”
Oliver reports, “The expanded report from Yukari Iwatani Kane and Ting-I Tsai also added that Apple will not create a dual-mode GSM and CDMA phone for Verizon’s network. Instead, the new Verizon-compatible phone will operate only on CDMA networks, based on a chip provided by Qualcomm.”
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I don’t think Verizon understands what an iPhone is, particularly, how Apple can use it to inevitably crush them.
It all makes sense now- Apple is waiting for the *opportune moment* to bring the iPhone to other carriers in the interests of obtaining maximum pandemonium and crushing power against those carriers that were not included.
I don’t think Verizon understands what an iPhone is, particularly, how Apple can use it to inevitably crush them.
It all makes sense now- Apple is waiting for the *opportune moment* to bring the iPhone to other carriers in the interests of obtaining maximum pandemonium and crushing power against those carriers that were not included.
@Derek
No multitasking of phone calls and the Internet.
You’re right, those who are former iPhone users will be disappointed and have had to make the adjustment. The question is, will these former iPhone users buy an iPhone if it becomes available on Verizon? I believe many will, for the bells and whistles. Not to mention, Jailbreak is always an option, unless of course Verizon stipulates exclusive rights to Root, just as they have for the G2.
Ball-parking it…
Half of Verizon’s customer base, who hasn’t been jaded by the AT&T/iPhone experience, will probably buy an iPhone, but only half of that will, if the iTunes Store is unavailable to them.
The people who buy a phone and not a gadget, will love the iPhone for its simplicity and will be absolutely giddy about FaceTime and the phone’s video capabilities.
I’m thinking Apple could potentially sell twenty-million+ phones to Verizon customers in the first year.
It begs to question, how much financial freedom is Apple going to give to Verizon to market the iPhone? Will Verizon develop tiered services predicated on iPhone’s capabilities?
Will Apple allow Verizon to block iTS access? Or will Verizon charge extra to access the Store?
iTS is iPhone’s raison d’etre, so it makes absolutely no sense for Apple to cave on that one. But it will be interesting to see how much freedom both parties are given.
I’ll say it again though, this is the kind of stuff that makes for great competition. AT&T will be able to contrast the use of the iPhone on their networks as opposed to the competition. This will be a coup for the consumer.
@Derek
No multitasking of phone calls and the Internet.
You’re right, those who are former iPhone users will be disappointed and have had to make the adjustment. The question is, will these former iPhone users buy an iPhone if it becomes available on Verizon? I believe many will, for the bells and whistles. Not to mention, Jailbreak is always an option, unless of course Verizon stipulates exclusive rights to Root, just as they have for the G2.
Ball-parking it…
Half of Verizon’s customer base, who hasn’t been jaded by the AT&T/iPhone experience, will probably buy an iPhone, but only half of that will, if the iTunes Store is unavailable to them.
The people who buy a phone and not a gadget, will love the iPhone for its simplicity and will be absolutely giddy about FaceTime and the phone’s video capabilities.
I’m thinking Apple could potentially sell twenty-million+ phones to Verizon customers in the first year.
It begs to question, how much financial freedom is Apple going to give to Verizon to market the iPhone? Will Verizon develop tiered services predicated on iPhone’s capabilities?
Will Apple allow Verizon to block iTS access? Or will Verizon charge extra to access the Store?
iTS is iPhone’s raison d’etre, so it makes absolutely no sense for Apple to cave on that one. But it will be interesting to see how much freedom both parties are given.
I’ll say it again though, this is the kind of stuff that makes for great competition. AT&T will be able to contrast the use of the iPhone on their networks as opposed to the competition. This will be a coup for the consumer.
There will never be different feature sets of the iPhone. That would compromise the technical support Apple makes available and would turn into a major headache.
There will never be different feature sets of the iPhone. That would compromise the technical support Apple makes available and would turn into a major headache.
If I was apple, I would not allow Verizon to add their apps on the phones. That was so great about AT&T, they gave Apple full control of their device and if people wanted Verizon products they should just download an app in the Apple’s App Store like how AT&T has their own app for “mywireless”