Another view on the Verizon iPhone
There is some chance that we are all clutching at straws here, but there is yet anther angle on the possibility of a Verizon iPhone today, and this time it has to do with domain names.
It has been discovered that Verizon has reserved the domain names “iPhoneonVerizon.com” and “iPhoneforVerizon.com.” That happened in 2008, according to a story on TMCNet, and although it obviously has not resulted in a Verizon iPhone, it is probably as solid as any of the other indicators that everyone keeps looking at to prove that there will be a Verizon iPhone any minute now. That is to say, of course, not solid at all. For while the air is full of rumors, the tech landscape is remarkably empty of facts that have any bearing whatever on the existence of a Verizon iPhone.
All of the usual suspects are weighing in on the domain name rumor, but there is really nothing to say. One of the major reasons that a company buys domain names is to keep other people from getting and using them. Think of it as a wireless pre-emptive strike. Besides, all of us tech bloggers are getting a little gun-shy. The Verizon iPhone has become a little like Roswell aliens or the sasquatch. You hear a lot about it, it gets acres of newsprint (and Web-words) but no one reliable has ever seen one and the only pictures of a Verizon iPhone have obviously been run through Photoshop.
There are also noises coming out of Bloomberg that say there may be a Verizon iPhone by Valentines Day, and there was yet another “photo” of a Verizon photo that supposedly appeared an a Skype advertisement. Even Piper Jaffray Apple-head Gene Munster has said that there will be a Verizon iPhone early in 2011, though he failed to say in which alternate dimension that may be true.
Is anyone still holding their breath?
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