Point of clarification, Sir Joe. If 911 is your concern. "coverage" is irrelevant. Put the phone on roam and you can ALWAYS dial 911. In fact, you can take a phone out of service (like I just did) on any phone and it can ALWAYS dial 911. When you donate a phone to the police dept. They give it to homeless people for just this purpose.
As to the rest of your rant. How do you know that Verizon didn't turn down Apple first? BTW, AT&T was a good choice for apple b/c this way they can create one SKEW for the device (GSM-only) and sell it around the world (except for Korea and Japan). Verizon sucks for not converting to the GSM standard the way AT&T Wireless did before it was Cingular (Oy! the history of Telco takeovers). I mean, maybe they could have gone to T-Mobile. But there are VERY VERY VERY few phones in the US that are not tied to specific services. I.e. Danger devices(SideKicks) (an entire platform of devices) work only on T-Mobile. In the case of the iPhone there are things about the phone that require changes at the service level if you want to use them (i.e. visual voicemail: one of my favorite parts of the phone). You can't simply port that to any carrier b/c it requires infrastructure changes on the carrier side to make it happen. Now, to the point, I don't believe that there will ever be a 1-device market in the smartphone world. There are just way too many considerations in the decision of purchasing these heavily functionality laden devices. I do think that iPhone has changed the playing field of expectations in regards to UI on mobile devices. This is a good thing. :) -- dave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=28455 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
