Alright, I’ve been neglecting my poor, beleaguered journal for too long, and it’s time to get writing something other than technical documents to work the brain muscle some more. C’mon brain!
What better grist for my journalling mill than fresh rumors that the iPhone will finally break free of AT&T’s Cthulu-like exclusivity arrangement and arrive on Verizon Wireless’s network? Why, according to this PC World article here, the iPhone is coming to Big Red sometime in 4Q10 or 1Q11. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We’ve heard it all before.
But this time, it’s serious.
According to yet another unnamed source–this one, apparently, with intimate knowledge of Apple’s supply-chain, has been saying that Apple has ordered quite a number of semiconductors from Qualcomm, the good folks who brought us CDMA technology in the first place.
Meanwhile, some of my friends have been conversing back and forth via e-mail about the relative merits and weaknesses of the new Epic and Galaxy, two new Android-based smartphones soon to be available on The Now Network™.
After doing an informal poll of my friends, here’s the breakdown, by their primary carrier (some use more than one carrier for work purposes). As an added bonus I’ve also included whether or not they have an iPhone as their primary phone if AT&T is their primary carrier.
The cellular networks my friends subscribe to
As you can see, the results of my decidedly unscientific, informal poll show that my friends subscribe to AT&T by a very wide margin. And of those who subscribe to AT&T, roughly 65% have an iPhone.
Regardless of whether the rumors actually prove themselves true or not, one day the iPhone will most definitely move to Verizon. And when it does, my gut tells me that you may see that AT&T slice become smaller and Verizon’s get bigger.
