"But you needed a discrete chip for CDMA and GSM, and two chips in one phone would be bulky and expensive. Vronko says Apple probably called on a company like Broadcom or Marvell to build a new processor."

@countjackula: It actually makes sense.

It's a bit ironic that without the iPhone, Verizon instead ended up as a winner in some major ways:

@auricom: The iPhone was announced six months before it went on sale.

@donlphi: Verizon has always had their own app store, but they never stopped users from downloading from other places as well.

Historically, bosses have also loved buying systems like WM over using "free" (not so free since you have to port and support it) software, because you have someone else to point fingers at if something goes really wrong.

@openfly: Exactly. During the last long blackout, the towers died and we were the only ones in the neighborhood with both a landline _and_ a non-cordless phone to hook to it (no power = no cordless landline use).

You should check out the app called "Edwin", which builds on all of this.

Remember the first few iPhone OS versions?

It's like saying the AT&T iPad email leak was done by a rogue engineer.

Never attribute anything to a plot, that can be explained by sheer stupidity.