You keep saying this like apple turned down Verizon. Verizon turned down the
iphone and apple.

Your starting to sound like John Navas.


"Oxford" <colalovesmacs@smart.com> wrote in message
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> "Kevin Weaver" <kevinkeithweaver@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>> >> most likely is No. 3 of course.... if those companies can modernize
>> >> enough to support Visual Voice Mail and very high bandwidth devices.
>> >
>> > Why do you need high bandwidth? I thought everything was done with
>> > WiFi.
>> > How long does ATT have an exclusive on the iPhone in the US? I thought
>> > it
>> > was 5 years.
>> > Also the iPhone is only GSM - is Apple also designing one that is CDMA?
>> >
>> They did. But Verizon being 1st in line for the iphone, shot the iphone
>> down. Then they got AT&T
>
> yes, that will likely go down as one of the top 25 biggest business
> blunders of the last 50 years or so.
>
> verizon almost had it, but failed at the end.
>
> http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/29/v...e-iphone-deal/
>
> i think they didn't yet understand that Apple sets the rules, they
> don't... so they lost the game. But it's possible they may have a chance
> later on.