John Navas <spamfilter1@navasgroup.com> amazed us all with the following in
news:6ehjr3lt2bmp29f6sposn3246hbvb70sb3@4ax.com:

> On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 01:55:38 +0000, mindfrost82
> <mindfrost82.34wjnu@no-mx.mindfrost82.com> wrote in
> <mindfrost82.34wjnu@no-mx.mindfrost82.com>:
>
>>Apple wanted too much control over the phone and the profits, so Sprint
>>and Verizon both declined the offer because of the amount of control
>>Apple wanted, at least that's what I read back when it first launched.
>>So its not so much GSM vs CDMA as it was control over the product.
>
> Sprint wasn't a player. Apple did a beauty contest between the two
> largest US carriers. Verizon lost and AT&T Wireless won. What you read
> was just Verizon trying to spin that loss away.
>

1. Sprint was approached by Apple. They turned them down.

2. What you read in hundreds of articles (many of are linked ot in the
archives of this newsgroup) was not spin, but an accurate protrayal of the
facts. Those that call it spin are either in denial or uninformed.