[Lonesome in Massachussets]

My daughter works retail sales for Verizon Wireless. The debut of the iPhone was a minor one month glitch. As soon as people found out about the non replaceable batteries, that plus sticker shock, scared most people away from iPhones.

If iPhones were anything other than a boutique niche, competitors would be all over them already.

[Wright Wing]

Consider me a blip on the next radar. I will be dumping Verizon for a 3G iPhone on release day.

[antiRepublicrat]

If iPhones were anything other than a boutique niche, competitors would be all over them already.

Why are the major phone manufacturers making an iPhone copy these days? Why did a Nokia rep blatantly say Nokia plans to copy the iPhone?

[Swordmaker]

My daughter works retail sales for Verizon Wireless. The debut of the iPhone was a minor one month glitch. As soon as people found out about the non replaceable batteries, that plus sticker shock, scared most people away from iPhones.

If iPhones were anything other than a boutique niche, competitors would be all over them already.

Um, no.

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