Verizon gets into the Christmas spirit by bashing AT&T and the iPhone

Granted, crappy service is crappy service, but AT&T seems to have fallen hook, line, and sinker for Verizon’s masterful marketing strategy of shifting the conversation away from the apps of the iPhone (its main selling point) to one exclusively about coverage. As a brand new owner of a Bold 9700, 3G is nice, but it isn’t the end all/be all. The majority of the iPhone’s apps (I own an iPod Touch) run perfectly fine without 3G. For the average iPhone/smartphone owner, 3G is the gravy covering the meat, not the meat itself; the apps are the meat. Since Verizon has yet to acquire something that can kill the iPhone, it must “change the base” and focus on its standby strengths of coverage and speed. If the Droid were a viable iPhone competitor, the vast majority of Verizon’s marketing emphasis would have been on the phone and it’s features with only a brief mention about 3G speeds and coverage (which is what they tried to do for a time). I’m not seeing that these days.

I’m not a Verizon fan, but I gotta admire their- thus far- successful strategy of saying to the consumer, “No, apps aren’t the most important thing to you in a phone. Cover and speed is”, and then sit back and watch as everyone gets into these crazy, prolonged, hashed and rehashed carrier arguments about coverage, speed, who’s got the best and why. Can someone say Jedi Mind Trick?

Well that sure doesnt stop people from wanting the iphone. It still sells strong

figures verizon will go that low just to make a quick buck or two. I love the fact that Verizon says there 3g network they can surf and talk at the same time. Ha, their still on the old network cdma. Verizon is probably mad because one phone is making people switch out of verizon awww so sad!!

apple, perfect devices for perfect sheeple….bahhhh

You can always tell a fan boy when you see one.

COL (cuckle out loud) is twice as good as LOL.

I thought the same thing a year ago when I bought my Macbook. Then I realized just how much software I need for my senior year in engineering that just don’t work on my Mac. That’s why my Mac spends 70% of its time running its Windows partition. While your point is certainly valid, you MUST keep in mind the fact that a device with great service, quality support, high quality, etc. isn’t always better than a device with only decent ratings in these areas, but that functions in the ways a person needs it to. This is why in America we have choice, the greatest freedom of all.

BTW, I would never own a BMW (and I love luxury cars).

@Anthony, WRONG again, man you’re really stupid. Apple doesn’t equal BMW, Apple = Audi/VW. Simple, fruity, boring, limited, – Apple

Oh, I don’t hate BMW’s, I just love Lexus and Infiniti too much to ever cheat on either of them with something that isn’t the other (I hope that makes sense.) I drive a Lexus GS350 right now. BTW I’m also 21. I guess I shouldn’t say I’d never own a BMW, just that I wouldn’t own one without having the other 2 already sitting in my garage lol.

Also, I do love my Mac, don’t get me wrong. It just doesn’t do what I need it to

Okay sorry guys, this has nothing to do with AT&T, VZW, the iPhone,etc. Oops, not really sure how that happened.

@Anthony, STFU, you pathetic tree hugging vw driving vegetarian fag. Verizon and Droid will crush your sad simple boring locked down fudge packing apple. go get another metrosexual latte and take that dildo out of your a**

…and I would never own another BMW. I’ve never had to pay for so many repairs as I did on my 2002 BMW 330i. As soon as the warranty ran out the car started falling apart… and repairing a BMW is expensive!

ring
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allet… to the repair shop.

Never again.