So Motorola
Ho-hum, business as usual. The ad touts phone features like the fast processor, the coming update to Google's
But when you read the whole thing, you'll see something unexpected: "And most importantly, it comes with a double antenna design. The kind that allows you to hold the phone any way you like and use it just about anywhere to make crystal clear calls."
For those who have been living under a boulder since Apple
Ouchie.
All is fair in love and marketing ,at least until the courts tell us otherwise, but there's an important subtext here. While it looks like Motorola designed the ad, explaining the veiled vitriol, Verizon must have vetted it before letting the thing go to print. After all, there's a prominent Verizon logo on the ad and the two have worked closely together marketing the Droid series. And that's not the kind of jab you would throw (or in this case allow to be thrown) at a prospective partner. To me, this is a clear sign that Verizon won't get iPhones in inventory anytime soon.
I still believe that Apple's best bet for beating Android in the American market is to expand to networks beyond just AT&T
But it looks like Verizon is not on deck. This makes sense for technical reasons, which also remove Sprint Nextel
So if Apple is expanding its iPhone reach in the States anytime soon, T-Mobile would pretty much be it. Verizon would probably tell you the same thing itself.
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