Verizon Iphone, your thoughts?

wilsonp

I expect either Verizon iPhone or iPad II on Jan 20, but I find it hard to believe an iPhone 4 coming out in Jan with iPhone 5 coming out in June/July timeframe. Seems like they would barely make enough to amortize, but it may be a good way for them to test the waters, or maybe they will keep CDMA behind until LTE for parity.

As for Android, it is a very capable OS and the Droid phones aren't bad, but they aren't iPhone killers yet. Apple's control over the hardware+software makes for a much more polished experience, even stock, though jailbreaking is needed to surpass stock Android customization (and Android needs rooting for parity again).

I think an interesting generalization is the Android market best sellers tend to be phone mods/customization apps, and the iPhone market best sellers tend to be actual applications.

Since mods aren't allowed in the iPhone marketplace, hard to say how accurate a sign that is about the types of owners. Stats for my jailbreak app indicate about 10% of iOS devices are jailbroken, so seems like iPhone owners aren't as interested in modding as Android owners (are there stats for percent rooted on Android?).

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wilsonp

So why won't Verizon market the heck out of an iPhone instead of the Droid?

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theDreamer

Well, Verizon has been buying up iphoneverizon type domains this past week so who knows.

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I have argued this for months. This is why I think they wont.
Verizon spent 5 years and countless millions of dollars trying to beat the Iphone... They did with the droid, WITHOUT the problems associated with the Iphone 4. There is no need for a stupid bumper, no need to worry if you're holding your phone correctly for reception, no need to worry if the updated software will be worse than the last. People want the Iphone yes, I will agree, but Verizon was offered the Iphone originally and they turned it down and probably regretted it. I've been through 7 Iphones, I had the grandfather unlimited data plan and I gave it up for the Droid X and will not look back.

The biggest reason I left ATT was the congestion on their network I used to have to wait 45 minutes to make a phone call sometime, and I had 3-5 dropped calls a day. According to every person I ever spoke to at ATT this was due to the iphone. Oh... and to top all of this off they upgraded my contract without permission for another 2 years and tried to make me pay a cancellation fee of $170.00, which took over 2 weeks to resolve.

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IPhone Alarm Clock Not Working in 2011 Fix on the Way - Associated Content from Yahoo! - associatedcontent.com

Ive never had that problem lol