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I don't think it is that simple. Apple wanted a lot more control than carries were willing to allow. They approached Verizon, since they were the largest carrie
by megablast 16y ago
I don't think it is that simple. Apple wanted a lot more control than carries were willing to allow. They approached Verizon, since they were the largest carrier at the time, and they laughed at them. They were not willing to change the way they operated, for some new upstart. Things like visual voicemail would not work with Verizon. You need to understand that carriers are the top dogs, they have great influence over phone manufacturers. Maybe you forget the bad old days, when Verizon would disable bluetooth and computer syncing on your phone, for their own reasons. Those days are mostly gone now, THANKS TO APPLE!
Apple had little clout at the time, and only ATT was willing to working with them. For now, they are still stuck with each other.
While Verizon/Spring may have better coverage in certain areas, they are complete dicks.
- nicholasreed 16y agoWhile Verizon/Spring may have better coverage in certain areas, they are complete dicks. As a Sprint rep, I resent that. You may have had a bad experience with somebody on the phone, but to generalize all Sprint (or Verizon for that matter) employees as dicks is not appropriate.
- megablast 16y agoSorry, not talking about the employees. I am talking about the control carriers used to exert on hardware manufacturers like Motorola, Nokia, etc... Whereas you could get the same device in Europe or the US, but the US version would be crippled because the carriers only wanted you to get ringtones from their store, wanted you to pay extra for bluetooth, and wanted an ad on the start page. Which means you couldn't use Motorola software to backup your device, somtimes you couldn't run Java apps, and so many other problems.
- jarek 16y ago... all of which stopped a fair while ago. IIANM you can root your Verizon Android phone if you want to.