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[technicalhitman]

The Verizon Apple deal is most likely rumor. If anything, I bet that Sprint is the carrier. Sprint is in a desperate position and needs a game changer to keep it afloat. With the Simply Everything Plan, the iPhone would be the game changer that could help it survive. However, I just don't see Verizon bending to Apple's demands. Verizon is in a very good position to where it doesn't need the iPhone. I would see Dan Hesse CEO of Sprint bending over backwards to get that contract.

Verizon can challenge AT&T for the number one spot. However, Sprint needs something that helps it break out of the funk. If Verizon did get the iPhone, I think that would pretty much seal Sprint's fate. Someone will buy it up as poor customer service and lack of communication are keeping Sprint from being competative.

[rubruc]

I would welcome this. AT&T coverage in rural America is nonexistant (I live in rural VA) but my girlfriend's Verizon phone get excellent reception all over the place. It sucks having the best phone on the market and I can't make calls.

[Ruefus]

Uhm...... did you miss the CES coverage? You do realize that the Palm Pre is Sprint's 'game changer'. Direct competition to the iPhone - and exclusively with Sprint. No way Sprint gets both.

[technicalhitman]

I did see CES. However, Sprint is a very desperate situation. They're bleeding a million customers per year. If they have to screw over Palm to catch up to Verizon and stick it to AT&T, thats what Sprint has got to do. You can come up with an "iPhone Killer" of all kinds, its never as good as the genuine article. Every competition killer almost never works. People want the iPhone and no knock off even one as good as the Pre will satisfy that desire.


The Japanese have a old expression. "Business is War." There's another expression that says "All is fair in love and war." If you have to get the iPhone and the Pre to get ahead of AT&T and Verizon, that would be part of my game plan. Not only do both phones compete for users on the same platform, but steal customers and market from the top two. Like I said, "If I was Sprint CEO Dan Hesse, I'd bend over backwards to get the iPhone." I'll add to it. I'd bend over backward to have both the Pre and the iPhone, so the must have phones of 2009 are only on Sprint. Its the only way to help Sprint bring customers back to the fold.