The Verizon iPhone 4 exists, unofficially for the moment of course, for one reason and one reason only: the existence of, for lack of a better term, AT&T-phobes. While many Americans see the difference between the four major cellular carriers to be fractional enough so as not to care, instead choosing the phone they want and then going with a carrier that offers it, just as many Americans have apparently decided that iPhone or not, they’re not willing to touch AT&T with a ten foot phone pole. If that sentiment weren’t so pervasive, those millions of Verizon customers who say they want the iPhone would have long ago changed carriers by now and been on their way. After all, it’s been nearly four years since the iPhone was first introduced. And after four years, the score stands as such: AT&T haters 1, Apple’s desire for exclusivity zero. As such, the Verizon iPhone 4 is nearly out of the womb.
Verizon customers’ reasons for AT&T phobia range far and wide. Some have had specific nightmare billing or service experiences with the latter in the past. Others live in an area in which AT&T’s signal is weak or slow. And still others are going strictly by reputation, unaware that iPhone users tend to have such high expectations for an Apple product experience that they’re probably bad mouthing AT&T in an outsized fashion. Regardless of their various reasons, Verizon Nation has won the battle. The larger question is whether they’ve won the war, as their insistence on avoiding AT&T and waiting for the iPhone to come to them has meant that they’ve been stuck with a phone they didn’t want since 2007 – no small feat considering the increasing consumer reliance on smartphones. But in any case, their victory in the battle, if no the war, has netted them the prize of a shiny new Verizon iPhone 4 just into th new year. It’s perhaps fitting that even with confirmation that the Verizon iPhone 4 is coming, they still have to wait for it just a bit longer. After all, they ought to be used to waiting by now.
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