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- DarkPilot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2007-01-28-verizon-iphone_x.htm?POE=TECISVA
Direct link to the article. - rhesuspieces00, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Thank God. In Verizon's hands, the iPhone would have had bluetooth disabled, a cap of 12 songs, and they'd have charge 19.99/month for 3 MB worth of internet service.
I don't care if they have the most reliable service. Verizon treats their customers like mentally handicapped criminals. No thank you. - JRPereira, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9The hell? Since when does Verizon want to be part of any relationship with customers?
- vudicarus, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11Hi jivebotic (OP) and andrewcod (above),
I noticed that this direct link was submitted a little over 1 hr before yours
http://digg.com/apple/Verizon_Passed_its_Chance_With_the_iPhone
I know that Digg's dupe check is not perfect and your submission may have been unintentional. As a top digger, your stories can easily bypass previous submissions which then linger in obscurity. I hope you can support the less popular diggers. Thanks. - festivalman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Exactly. Verizon indeed offers some of the best quality phone coverage, but damn, they cripple and overcharge literally everything not related to making a phone call. It nearly makes me cry when any of my friends with non-Verizon phones have every feature under the sun, WITH THE SAME PHONE AS ME, just with the other carrier.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Verizon says " take some of our fees??? NO WAY!! thats where all of our money comes from, we over a 40 dollar plan, and then in the end, it ends up at 100 dollars"
- dle5, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You would think Verizon would've learned from IBM.
- WhackingDay, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2This'll be fun. Who is more evil Apple or Verizon? I know who I'd pick, but then I also know who most of the posters in this thread is gonna pick too.
- vjk2005, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Can someone explain why apple wants control over the relationship with the customers? I can guess but I would like your thoughts on this.
- rhesuspieces00, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1For the same reason they started building stores instead of trying to sell computers in CompUSA. They want to control the user's experience from the moment he considers buying the product to the day when he throws it away and buys something new. There is a lot of argument over whether Apple is a "hardware company" or a "software company". Personally, I think that argument has missed the point. Apple sells a user experience. Thats why they pack all their products in fancy boxes with custom molded inserts, and why they are so reluctant to let other people sell their products. They don't want a pock-marked kid with a room temperature IQ who has never used an Apple product trying to answer questions about the difference between a MacBook and a MacBook Pro for all the people that walk through the doors at BestBuy. The same applies here. Cellular phone service providers (and Verizon in particular) are known for having a hostile relationship with their customers, and Apple doesn't want their customers to encounter that.
- aliguana, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1re:festivalman
yeah, the same with Three and Orange in the UK. Infact, I dread to think what they're going to do with the iPhone... although whether they'll carry it at all is a different matter, after reading this - vjk2005, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Vtorch, r u saying the guy who manages pioneering firms Apple and Pixar lacks 'Common Sense'?
common sense will tell u that's not true.
He is a great businessman in every sense of the word. - Moleculor, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Eh, I'll just wait for a GSM knockoff, get everything that Apple has designed in a package I can take to any carrier I want, usually without the contracts. (My current phone is all that, minus the Apple innovations.)
- UFOcool23, on 10/12/2007, -7/+5Yeah, what dumb asses for not letting Apple push them around for a glorified Ipod. I give props to Verizon for not caving in
- Salgat, on 10/12/2007, -12/+10If your talking about Apple, then I agree.
- Vtorch, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1That's just too bad. I've tried all the cariers (ATT&T, T-Mobile, Cingular, Sprint, Nextel) Verizon has the best overall cel-phone service. Best in terms of customer service, quality of phones, AND (the most important of them all) coverage quality. This is from a person who has used the Motorola VIP series Micro-Tac, Mercedes Benz Star-tac & V series, the Samsung i700, and now the Palm Treo 700w.
You pay for quality....you get quality.
Anyway, the iPhone will not be a "hit" because....C'mon, commons sense will tell ya, nobody switches phone carriers because of the phone. They switch carriers because of service. Verizon's service is argueably the best.
Steve Jobs is a great visionary and innovator, but a brilliant businessman........LOL....he is not. - andrewcod, on 10/12/2007, -11/+6Digg the one that links to the article instead
http://digg.com/apple/Verizon_rejected_Apple_iPhone_deal - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -17/+10"mentally handicapped"
Apple's customer base immediately came to mind when you said that. - n8dawg87, on 10/12/2007, -11/+2What dumbasses...
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