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Few customers lining up for Verizon's iPhone

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A couple of factors:

It took long enough to get to Verizon that decent competition came along with Android.
People will wait until their contracts expire, and switch phones at that time.
Anticipation of future LTE devices.
 
Anyone who wanted an iPhone 4 already has one. Anyone who would buy a CDMA iPhone 4 is a douche bag. Can't talk and send data at the same time? What a joke.

Seriously though, iPhone 5 could be be out in 4 months and support LTE. Why on earth would anyone get the CDMA version now?
 
My AT&T contract is up.
I will switch to Verizon if they get the new iPhone at the same time as AT&T, this summer.
If not, I might still wait until Verizon gets it.
 
No mystery here. I can't imagine buying one on a contract when we expect a new iPhone for the same price in about 4 short months...which *might* even have 4G LTE and solve that pesky can't-use-data-while-talking problem.

It's kinda stupid to get a CDMA-only iPhone 4 if you expect that a better phone for the same price is coming in about 4 months.
 
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DLeRium said:
why must there be a learning curve on a phone like this?

All Google needs to do is polish things up
- Finish C&P implementation. It was nice to laugh at Apple, but the fact that they have better C&P implementation by far makes the Android version useless. Heck, HTC Sense had to make it decent.
- Hardware accelerated UI hello? It's funny seeing DroidX owners and their CHOPPY home screens. Sure, you have the "openness" of being able to get a new launcher, but why should anyone HAVE to get a new launcher just to have the basics work? This is like buying a car that can only drive on a flat road. Why should I have to change the engine out to drive on a hill in San Francisco? Maybe it should've been designed better?

The fact is if Google spent a little more time and adjusted the wrinkles of Android out, then we wouldn't have to rely on dumbass carriers to roll out skins left and right and delay our updates.
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Well there's many things I and others could say iPhone needs but we really don't need to get into that. Don't know why you feel you need to get into that here.
 
TuxDave said:
The days of waiting in monstrous lines for an iPhone ended around the iPhone 3GS. Now you can just preorder 2 weeks ahead of release and pick up anytime during the day at your leisure and guarantee to get one.
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Helloooo? Trying to reserve an iPhone 4 when they first started taking reservations online was f*cking INSANE!

gorcorps said:
It's still a big deal. Just because one can do the same thing as the other doesn't mean people don't have a preference. People would flip shit if they walked into a restaurant and could CHOOSE between coke or pepsi, instead of having to deal with whatever vendor the restaurant chose. They both do the same thing, but some people care.
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What?! I can't think of ANY restaurant here in the southeast that will let you choose. They simply couldn't get a competitive deal with a soda vendor if they didn't go exclusive.
Store: Choice
Restaurant: No choice
 
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People that buy that phone are morons. They'll have the new IPhone 5 in a couple of months. Why get locked in for 2 years on old hardware?
 
LOL, I love this crap, I know about 20 people that pre ordered on the web to avoid the stupid lines.

The world is changing, people shopped on the web a lot for Christmas, and discovered that they don't have to que up for stuff or waste gas driving around.

My closest Verizon store is a block away, I chatted a bit with them, they had 10 phones in stock, all sold by 10am, they could have sold 4X as many if they had enough stock. Between Apple stores, Verizon stores, Best Buy and Wal Mart, they sold a ton of them though retail chains, then add in the massive online sales. They likely sold 500K pre orders to existing Verizon customers last week, and the total combined sales will be like 1.5 million by the first weekend I suspect.

Stuff like this is why Apple keeps blowing away the analysts with quarterly earnings.
 
mb said:
Maybe Verizon customers are generally smarter and/or more patient? Maybe they realize it's easier to get the phone online than to stand out in the cold weather?
Or maybe they're happy with their Android phone and don't want a freaking iphone??
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I'm a very happy Verizon customer, I'm just waiting for Motorola's Droid Bionic and will happily use my Droid 2 till then.
 
I have never known a person whose iPhone didn't fuck up on them. My roommates' routinely locks up on her and the mute switch on the side flat out doesn't work, despite popping up the little speaker with a line through it as if it was working. Another friend of mine kept trying to show me something one day and had to restart the damn thing like four times. Fuck the iPhone. I will never purchase it, regardless of the carrier.
 
The most annoying part

"Customers were able to pre-order the Verizon iPhone last week, and analysts estimate between 250,000 and 1 million of the phones were sold on pre-orde"

Really??? You couldn't get your estimate withing 750,000 units? That's like saying, I estimate they sold 500,000 units....give or take 500,000.
 
Beev said:
I have never known a person whose iPhone didn't fuck up on them. My roommates' routinely locks up on her and the mute switch on the side flat out doesn't work, despite popping up the little speaker with a line through it as if it was working. Another friend of mine kept trying to show me something one day and had to restart the damn thing like four times. Fuck the iPhone. I will never purchase it, regardless of the carrier.
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And yet everyone I know has had the exact opposite experience with iPhone. My up time can last months, and never had a problem or known anyone with a problem.

Headphones are another story, but at least you get a pair of them with the phone unlike droid's.
 
TheNinja said:
The most annoying part

"Customers were able to pre-order the Verizon iPhone last week, and analysts estimate between 250,000 and 1 million of the phones were sold on pre-orde"

Really??? You couldn't get your estimate withing 750,000 units? That's like saying, I estimate they sold 500,000 units....give or take 500,000.
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They sold between 0 and 9,000,000,000 units.
 
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