, Joe Wilcox took on that Apple let Verizon handle the iPhone announcement to manage down expectations of new hardware. According to Joe, Verizon handled the announcement because it wears the pants in the relationship.

Dalrymple has reported about Apple for more than 15 years, and he is remarkably astute in his observations and he is careful about story sourcing.

Joe, on the other hand, seems without flying out of it like .

But for once—in the rarest of instances—Apple Kool-aid poisoned his judgement.

The Macalope knows Dalrymple, too, Joe. Well enough to know that he doesn’t drink Kool-Aid. He drinks Heineken. The Macalope and he’ll think long and hard about doing it again.