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Apple May Hear Verizon Now

Any deal Verizon makes with Apple for an iPhone will require a huge change at Verizon.

Verizon cripples most of the features on it's phones and then charges extra to activate them, this is the exact opposite of the iPhone/App store philosophy.

Verizon decides for you what services and capabilities that your phone has, Apple will even let you create your own.

Verizon charges extra for all the basic functions that make the iphone so great - Syncing addressbooks and calendars, photos, videos, notes, documents, e-mail, ringtones etc.

Finally, Verizon's advantage now is it's extensive CDMA network in the US. Apple has stated that they are not going to make a phone with CDMA, especially since it will not work in most places outside the US.

For all the above reasons Verizon will have to go a long way and spend a lot of cash to get there. Will Verizon change the way it does things so dramatically?