Apple vacation policy predicts Verizon iPhone
After having exhausted almost every other possible indicator of an iPhone coming to roost at Verizon, the universe has now offered up an Apple human resources policy to clinch the deal.
We have waded through reports and predictions from suppliers of components for the iPhone, we have seen purported photos of a Verizon iPhone, we have heard about corporate training memos regarding the Verizon iPhone, and have done everything but peer under the pants cuffs and up the sleeves of Steve Jobs and Ivan Seidenberg. Still, all we have is rumors and no Verizon iPhone. So the people that look for rumors in all the right and wrong places have found yet another place to look: the Apple Human Resources policy on vacation restrictions for the three weeks beginning Feb 1, 2011.
The theory here is that when the Verizon iPhone actually and miraculously appears, the employees of its retail stores will be hard-pressed to keep up with the demand, according to a PCMag story. Thus, the news that Apple is restricting vacation requests from retail employees for those three weeks in February emerges as acid proof that the Verizon iPhone is not only coming, it is coming in time for Valentine’s Day. One supposes that when actual information is thin on the ground, one should be able to substitute any scrap of semi-information that comes along in order to make a prediction.
If one considers the situation rationally, something which does not normally seem to count when sussing out rumors on the Apple front, there is a very compelling reason why the iPhone should come to Verizon. That reason lives squarely in the middle of the rationale for the existence of American corporate business and that is the all-important factor of greed: both parties stand to make yet more money if they team up to sell the iPhone. If all else fails, you can always fall back on good old human avarice as the reason for a juicy rumor.
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