Verizon and Apple: To be or not to be?

28.04.2009
There's a lot of hubbub this week over reports that Some think the two companies would make the world's cutest couple, while others think that the two couldn't make it work if they were the last two companies in a world obliterated by an apolcalyptic zombie outbreak.

The potential relationship would certainly seem to have its share of promise and pitfalls in equal measure, so in the interest of fair balanced reporting, we decided to give each side of the debate an ardent champion, two voices that would be perfectly and evenly matched against each other in laying out the yea's and nay's of the situation. Two combatants who would know each others' ins-and-outs, stratagems and tactics, gambits and tricks as well as they would know their own.

Then we scrapped that idea and decided that it would be far more fun to have me debate the one person I always seem to agree with: myself.

If there's one weak point in the iPhone's seemingly Achillean invulnerability, it's the tendon named AT&T. Since day one, potential iPhone customers have hemmed and hawed over purchasing the handset because of the necessity of switching providers, many of them from AT&T's primo rival, Verizon Wireless.

So the news that --or other portable devices--to that network has consumers hearing Handel's Hallelujah chorus. Verizon reportedly passed on a chance to help bring the iPhone to the market way back when the device was still in the planning phases, as it was hesitant to give Apple the share of subscriber revenues that AT&T proved all too willing to shell out.