Verizon CEO: iPhone Is No Big Deal, And I Hope Steve Jobs Retires Soon

Silicon Alley Insider:

Some trash talk from pugnacious Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg, via the FT:

While describing Apple as a "great company", Mr Seidenberg highlights its small market share of global handset sales. He scoffs at suggestions that the iPhone is about to become a mass-market handset because Apple has accepted mobile operators' pleas to subsidise it.

"There goes the conspiracy again," he says of Apple. "You're declaring them a winner before they've earned it on the field."

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Comments

[realityczech4u]

The creative genius of Steve Jobs is irreplaceable.

As for Verizon, I am a great fan of theirs in one area. They are rolling out their FiOS fiber optic network and are providing Comcast with long overdue competition, As a former Comcast customer, I hope they beat the crap out of them. They are rip-off artists who wouldn't know the meaning of 'customer service' if it jumped up and bit them in the arses.

[Buckywunder]

Verizon is notoriously anti-union and totally cooperated with the warrantless wiretapping by the U.S.

I wouldn't use them if I were paid to do it...

[WIpatriot]

Pees on him, why don't they hope I retiire soon??