Alan Williams

Was Verizon Really Wrong To Pass On The iPhone?

Yes, your iPhone sales forecasts were made by Apple's competition. They are way too low.

Let's not forget that the 10 to 20 million iPhone customers that AT&T will have by the end of 2008 will all be paying AT&T $20 per month for their, up to now, underutilized 2.5G data network.

At 20 million iPhone customers, that's 4.8 billion a year in revenue in 2009 that they wouldn't have had without the iPhone.

Verizon, a bigger control freak than even Apple is, could not agree to relinquish cell phone feature control, could not see the iPhone's potential, and screwed up big time. You'd think no one in upper management at Verizon had ever used an iPod or a Mac with OS X.

Big mistake. When they do the postmortem on Verizon's corpse, the iPhone will be mentioned by one and all.