“AT&T Inc. is about to lose its lock on the iPhone,” Yukari Iwatani Kane and Ting-I Tsai report for The Wall Street Journal. “Apple Inc. is making a version of its iPhone that Verizon Wireless will sell early next year, according to people familiar with the matter, ending an exclusive deal with AT&T and sharpening the competition with Google Inc.-based phones.”
MacDailyNews Take: If, by “sharpening the competition with,” Kane and Tsai mean “turning Google’s dream into a nightmare,” they’re right on target.
Kane and Tsai continue, “While Apple is on track to sell 40 million iPhones across the globe this year, the touchscreen handset is facing pressure in the U.S. from phones running Google’s Android software, which have been heavily promoted by Verizon Wireless, the biggest U.S. carrier by subscribers.”
MacDailyNews Take: Verizon has been running continuous Buy One, Get One (BOGO) promos on Android phones in order to “compete” with Apple’s iPhone which also has the side effect of convincing the gullible, placating those unable to think critically, and feeding the corruptible with numbers to create the falsehood, that “Android is winning.” Obviously, if this WSJ report is correct (and all indications are that this report is correct; as with this article Kane and Tsai have now made it crystal clear that Verizon is getting the iPhone; notice they’ve stopped using “Verizon-ready” as they did yesterday), then giving away an extra unit with every heavily-subsidized fake iPhone you move out the door is not a sustainable business model. Obviously.
Kane and Tsai continue, “Apple plans to begin mass producing the new iPhone by the end of the year, and it would be released in the first quarter of 2011, these people said. The phone would resemble the iPhone 4 currently sold by AT&T, but would be based on an alternative wireless technology used by Verizon, these people said… Verizon Wireless has been meeting with Apple, adding capacity and testing its networks to prepare for the heavy data load by iPhone users, according to one person familiar with the matter… Apple’s CDMA iPhone is being made by Pegatron Technology Corp., the contract manufacturing subsidiary of Taiwan’s Asustek Computer Inc., said the people briefed on the matter.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Verizon looks to finally be getting an Apple iPhone early next year. When they do, watch the numbers when the Android BOGOs go away and Verizon customers can finally get what they really want, the real thing, Apple’s revolutionary iPhone (please see: Google’s Android nightmare: More than half of all Verizon subscribers want an Apple iPhone). This is going to be even more of a bloodbath; one that BOGO numbers will not be able to obscure.
So, when Android fans are trumpeting the fact that Android is outselling the iPhone, are they counting all the free phones from the Buy One, Get One Free deals as sold phones? Wow, that would be almost Microsoftian in it’s lameness.
So, when Android fans are trumpeting the fact that Android is outselling the iPhone, are they counting all the free phones from the Buy One, Get One Free deals as sold phones? Wow, that would be almost Microsoftian in it’s lameness.
WSJ has reported many times that iPhone will go to Verizon, and everytime they were wrong. Why should I believe them now? They even said the iPad was going to be on Verizon too. I’ve learned never to believe WSJ.
WSJ has reported many times that iPhone will go to Verizon, and everytime they were wrong. Why should I believe them now? They even said the iPad was going to be on Verizon too. I’ve learned never to believe WSJ.
Android is just a brown paper bag – Why settle for a cheap imitation that’s castrated and lacks support and direction, when you can have the the iPhone with the entire excellent experience, support and supreme quality that Apple offers ?
Android is just a brown paper bag – Why settle for a cheap imitation that’s castrated and lacks support and direction, when you can have the the iPhone with the entire excellent experience, support and supreme quality that Apple offers ?
Maybe you will be able to differentiate ATnT iPhones because they will be black, and Verizon because they are white.
Maybe you will be able to differentiate ATnT iPhones because they will be black, and Verizon because they are white.
Keep talking WSJ. We’ll keep waiting with baited breath. (Like squid.)
Keep talking WSJ. We’ll keep waiting with baited breath. (Like squid.)
They said, they said….. People familiar…… People close to……
Com on still no yes or no answer yet….
They said, they said….. People familiar…… People close to……
Com on still no yes or no answer yet….
I just checked 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino CA 95014 with Google Earth. I could not see any Verizon, Sprint, or T-Mobile cell towers, only the ATnT tower that’s been there since 2006.
I just checked 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino CA 95014 with Google Earth. I could not see any Verizon, Sprint, or T-Mobile cell towers, only the ATnT tower that’s been there since 2006.
Why does everyone expect the iphone to go to verizon first? How about tmobile which people already have their iphone on.. or even Sprint? I don’t remember seeing many Sprint ADs either that were dissing the iphone or AT&T like Verizon has and same with T-mobile. I think jobs should say screw you and not give it to verizon yet just to watch them suffer a bit.
Why does everyone expect the iphone to go to verizon first? How about tmobile which people already have their iphone on.. or even Sprint? I don’t remember seeing many Sprint ADs either that were dissing the iphone or AT&T like Verizon has and same with T-mobile. I think jobs should say screw you and not give it to verizon yet just to watch them suffer a bit.
Hope it happens – I’ll believe it when I see it.
Hope it happens – I’ll believe it when I see it.
This will be great. Many of the AT&T users want to get a Verizon iPhone next. This will lighten up the load on AT&T and force AT&T to offer TETHERING!!! You know, WHAT YOU SAID YOU WOULD DO!
The iPhone load is going to tank Verizon’s network.
This will be great. Many of the AT&T users want to get a Verizon iPhone next. This will lighten up the load on AT&T and force AT&T to offer TETHERING!!! You know, WHAT YOU SAID YOU WOULD DO!
The iPhone load is going to tank Verizon’s network.
Exactly how is this going to turn Google’s dream into a nightmare? All those Android users are in 2 year contracts, so they can’t flock to the iPhone for 2 years. And in 2 years, they might be so enamored with their Android phones and Android apps that they just might stay with Android.
Exactly how is this going to turn Google’s dream into a nightmare? All those Android users are in 2 year contracts, so they can’t flock to the iPhone for 2 years. And in 2 years, they might be so enamored with their Android phones and Android apps that they just might stay with Android.
Yeah MDN, I’ve got my doubts, too.
I can’t see a CDMA iPhone, but 4G is beginning to open up so this might be possible. And I suppose I can see the logic of competition for Android on Verizon. But as a long-time customer of Verizon, I’m nearly out of patience with their customer service, and expensive phone bills.
I initiated AT&T service for my iPad, and couldn’t be happier with the whole experience, . . . unless it was free.
Yeah MDN, I’ve got my doubts, too.
I can’t see a CDMA iPhone, but 4G is beginning to open up so this might be possible. And I suppose I can see the logic of competition for Android on Verizon. But as a long-time customer of Verizon, I’m nearly out of patience with their customer service, and expensive phone bills.
I initiated AT&T service for my iPad, and couldn’t be happier with the whole experience, . . . unless it was free.
I can’t wait until Verizon carries the iPhone.
Because I will never have to hear/read about it ever again.
(Ya, I know — I don’t have to click on the article yada, yada, but hey — I’m as curious as the next guy:-)