Steven Michael Kudelko

I can’t wait to own an iPhone again.  The iPhone and the Verizon network are the perfect combination.  I missed the iPhone… although the Droid was amazing in itself, and the only way to go safely through iPhone withdrawal…. but I didn’t miss the AT&T network, knew they hadn’t made ANY changes in the year and a half I’d been gone, and would NEVER go back for any reason, ever, at all, even if I lived in an area well covered by AT&T, because I’d be afraid of traveling into a poorly covered one.  I wasn’t expecting a Verizon iPhone during the 3G generation.  

To me, I didn’t think Apple would produce a product with so little market (compared to their usual products, which have a global market, the Verizon iPhone is limited to only people in the United States of America that have Verizon Wireless or no cell phone or who are willing to switch carriers, ONLY THOSE PEOPLE because of the hardware limits of the phone, where the AT&T iPhone 4’s market is anyone in the world (GSM, the technology AT&T uses, is a worldwide standard vs. CDMA, the technology Verizon uses, being limited to Verizon Wireless customers in the United States) who has a cell phone, has no cell phone, or is willing to switch from a select few proprietary networks (1%-3% of the total amount of cellular providers) to any of the 97%+ worldwide cellular providers that will support the iPhone).  I figured when 4G became standard (for early adopters okay with spotty coverage similar to current networks in maybe late 2011, early 2012…. for acceptable use for all mobile customers, regardless of their technology skill level, most likely late 2012 early 2013) Verizon and AT&T would be able to use the same device, as well as every single mobile carrier in the world except Spring, without different models delivered by Apple.  

That means one production line, one hardware design, for a product it can sell worldwide.  That’s of interest to a big company like Apple and is affected by the logistics and market pattern of the cellular industry.  Plus, by 2012-2013, we’d be ready for a new iPhone.  A really new iPhone, like a jump compared to the original iPhone straight to the iPhone 4.  We’d be getting sick and tired of obligatory purchase of a new device with minor, minor evolutionary changes, mostly just unlocked in software and not actually tied to the new device only, for the same outrageous out-of-upgrade price, even if we were bound to use AT&T and an iPhone data package until at least 2055 because of the signing of a new two-year contract each time we upgrade or add a new Apple iPhone device, irregardless if you’re replacing your current phone for a new device using the same number.  

I guess Apple’s marketing department thought differently.  Maybe they wanted to snap up every single customer they could get before going on hiatus for a few years, knowing there is no real reason to release an iPhone 5 next year, or for the next 3 years, because the iPhone 4 is just about as perfect as you could get using the technology that most customers will be just fine with for the next 3 years, aside from ridiculously early adopters and pseudo-geek wanna-bes that want a super-specific entirely unnecessary specification just to prove a fucking point.  Who knows?  All I know is that I’m buying the Verizon iPhone 4, replacing my Motorola Droid that I got when I first signed my Verizon contract, paying without upgrade eligibility, just because IT’S A MOTHER FUCKING IPHONE BITCH…. AND IT’S ON MY NETWORK, THE NETWORK THAT SUCKS SO LITTLE THAT IT WAS WORTH GIVING UP MY PRECIOUS APPLE DEVICE FROM SIR STEVE JOBS HIMSELF BECAUSE THE COVERAGE ON AT&T MADE ME SO SUICIDAL THAT THERE WOULD BE NO POINT IN OWNING THE DEVICE IF I WERE NOT ALIVE TO USE IT.  Yep.  I’ll see you in line… the long, long line.