[ccmay]

Apple approached Verizon as their first choice. Verizon was not interested. AT&T was.

I wonder if there is a former director of new product development at Verizon who kicks himself fifty times a day.

[Spktyr]

Word is (I have a friend that works for VZ) that the person responsible was actually promoted for ‘avoiding the need to upgrade the network to support the iPhone.’

Verizon is all kinds of screwed up.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Apple approached Verizon as their first choice. Verizon was not interested. AT&T was.

I wonder if there is a former director of new product development at Verizon who kicks himself fifty times a day.

Perhaps not . . . the Wall Street Journal had an article about the profitability of the iPhone to AT&T, net of subsidy for the purchase of the iPhone hardware - and it wasn't all roses.