Scott wrote:

> There is no evidence to support this claim.

In fact, it is highly unlikely that Apple would do this, as it's very
out of character. Jobs is, above all, a businessman. He looked at which
carrier signs up the most customers each quarter for post-paid service,
and went to them first. It'd be one thing if the two top carriers were
fairly close in terms of new contract customers, but they're not.
Verizon consistently tops Cingular by more than a two to one margin for
new post-paid customers, the most valuable kind.

Personally I think Verizon was probably foolish for turning Apple down,
because the iPhone customers will be very high ARPU customers. Yes,
Apple is a demanding partner, but think of an iPhone with EV-DO as
opposed to EDGE.