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Cook rips a page from Steve Jobs playbook for Verizon iPhone

28.04.2009
Remember how Steve Jobs said , right up until the day he pulled one out of his pocket? Apple COO Tim Cook is trying to fill his boss's shoes with the same tactic. Less than a week ago, trigger-happy bloggers let everyone know that no, anytime soon because Cook said on a conference call that Verizon's CDMA technology "doesn't really have a life to it after a certain point in time."

Now, USA Today reports that yes, that runs on Verizon's bigger-than-AT&T CDMA network. America's most-read newspaper says this comes from "people familiar with the situation," by which they mean upper management at Verizon. On a conference call Monday morning, Verizon operating chief Dennis Strigl he had "no announcements to make relative to Apple today." That translates as "Yes, but shh!"

The most likely scenario: Yes, there's a CDMA iPhone deal in the works. But no, Apple doesn't want you to wait for it. They want you to buy an AT&T iPhone today. Tim Cook has learned to bluff effectively with that "after a certain point in time" qualifier. But he hasn't got Verizon's blabbermouth executives under control. Jobs is so much better at that.