To me this is not a big deal i wasn't planning on buying an iPhone from AT&AT(My service provider) any way the point is that is just another smart phone  going to a company that specializes in phones and correct me if i'm wrong hasn't Verizon had adds claiming that they had  better phone to begin with. So again it's not a big deal at all. Just another company getting another phone.

Well, considering I am one of said International viewers, and also not an owner
of an i-phone, or even a fan,I have to say that I can't really see this as a big deal.

Maybe if I knew something about the different networks, and wanted my phone
to do more than call, text, and take photo's every now and then,
I would have a different opinion, but there's my two cents.

I think what the big deal was a single phone carrier having a "monopoly" on a hot new product.  Well, I didn't really see it that way tho. If Verizon would have gotten the iphone sooner, droid phones probably would have tanked quick, or not been as popular as they are now. When companies have exclusive rights to a product it helps create competition to build a better product.

Part of that is gone now however. Verizon will want to do more to push their new product, and droid phones will have to find other carriers to let them really shine.

i don't think Verizon will stop caring about droid phones all together, but there won't be the big push like there was.

Hrm, the iPhone on Verizon? Maybe if I hadn't just gotten the Droid Incredible. Honestly, we knew the announcement was coming, but no one knew the date. All we knew was some amorphous "in 2011." But most people suspected in Q1. Regardless, I still went ahead and bought the Droid. I realized that Research in Motion was really dragging its feet in updating the Blackberry's functionality and simply releasing design alternatives, so I switched.

That isn't to say I dislike Apple products. My work computer and my personal laptop are Macs. I, personally, find them to be the best computers in the world. I also own an iPod Touch. That said, I'm a Sony fanboy. I always have been, always will be.

I mean, I remember what it was like to save every penny I had to buy a Walkman. Hell, we even had a Betamax when I was little. The speakers and stereo in my car are Sony, I have a PS3 and not a 360 (well, no longer), Blu-Ray, my television is a Vaio, and my surround sound is Sony as well. But Sony makes really shitty phones. The Ericsson is garbage incarnate.

^{And when it comes out, I'm going to buy the Sony Google Internet TV. May max out a credit card to do it, but I'll get it.}

So that's why I have a Droid. Sure, I got offered an incentive to switch to the iPhone the other day, but I doubt I will. Not after spending $300 on a smart phone, just to trade it in for an $80 credit toward the iPhone.

The sad thing is, I really believe that Verizon is going to hunker down and bank on the iPhone so hard that they're going to offend those of us who have other phones on the network. Even down to the point of shunning us, altering our service plans for the worse and harassing us until we do switch. Just to finally pull the coup de'tat on AT&T they've always wanted. And the customers will pay the price for their zealotry.

No opinion available for this Wringer since it doesn't apply to me. (I dislike mobile phones.)

Is it really that big of a deal? Well, yes and no. Verizon already has smart phones like the Android, etc, so when the iphone is available on their network, it might not be that big of a deal, but it could also bring them new customers. This could also cause a competition between Verizon and AT&T because AT&T would no longer have a monopoly over the iphone. So in that sense, it could be a big deal for the companies, but if you're like everyone else in the USA, then this would just be another option for a phone to buy. I guess what i'm trying to say is either it's going to be a big deal, or it's just going to be another phone.

No, it's not a big deal.

Now, I know that people flip out about the fact that AT&T service is just down right horrible, but honestly, it's fine with me. The only places where I don't get great service are at my house, or at school. And honestly, I'm fine either way. For one thing, at home, if I need to make a call, I can use a land-line, and if I want to connect to the Internet, my computer's right there, so home... no issue. As for school, technically, I'm not supposed to have it with me, so once again, no issue. I've also heard that you can't multi-task on your phone during a call, which I'd like to keep. I also wouldn't like to pay the extra to terminate my AT&T contract and then buy a new iPhone.

NBD!!

I don't think it's ok to let a single company have a monopoly over anything. I'm not from the USA so I don't know if AT&T is terrible or not but the end of a monopoly is beneficial for the consumer wether you stay with AT&T or switch to the other one. I think it's not responsible to not care about having a market that is at least 1% more free than yesterday. On the other hand, it's just a damn cell phone so it is inevitable to think that the media wants to make a big deal about this just to distract the public from actual relevant news as they usually do.

I-Phone, Schmy-Phone.

I couldn't give a crap about the I-Phone.

I would love to have a smartphone of some sort, but Apple will not be seeing any of my money.

For the time being I love and will stick with my Samsung Alias 2 dual flip with e-ink keyboard until I see an actual smartphone with those features (the new Samsung Zeal dual flip doesn't really count).    I mess with the Android phones when I go to my local Verizon store, and I really like them.  Right now, however, It's just not in the budget to shell out for the data package required for a smartphone 

I would really like to see a dual flip with touch screen and e-ink keyboard running the Android OS.  It would have to be slightly longer and wider than the current Alias 2 or Zeal to have a big enough screen to be worthwhile.

That would be a SMARTphone!

Why an actual keyboard instead of virtual keyboard?  I like the tactile feel of the keys instead of touching a spot on a screen and hoping I touched the right spot.

I really don't care about smart phones, and I don't have any drama about different networks. A phone is for talking to people with. And frankly, I don't even really like to be bothered often, so I rarely keep my phone on me.

Not a big fan of Apple, really; they like to control every little aspect of their products. To me, a computer is both a tool and personal, and being limited on what I can do with it defeats the purpose of both. And I don't want to replace a product every year or two, I want to upgrade if anything. The same goes for not only iPhones, but most smart phones. The entire network is designed to limit peoples' options.

What is a big deal is YouTube now requiring all accounts be linked to Gmail accounts.

I already have a iPhone 4 so no point in switching networks...

I'm going to qualify my post with a couple of remarks; 1) I want an iPhone really bad, and 2) I'm on T-mobile so #1 won't happen unless I buy an iPhone and then go all 1337 h4Xx0r on it (which I'm not about to do).

I'm in the BFD camp.  Andoid is now the most popular phone OS, and these days, there are so many different smart phones available that the iPhone really has become just another phone.  Sure, Apple will sell a bunch more iPhones, and Verizon will gain a slightly bigger market share, but my belief is that Android (along with Windows Mobile) will ensure that the iPhone doesn't completely dominate the cell phone market.

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