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The Other Ads Attacking Apple

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on October 20

Check out the ad below for the Motorola Droid phone, which runs, naturally, Google’s Android, and is coming soon to Verizon. I first noticed it on TV last night, though I don’t remember what show I was watching.

As my colleague Olga Kharif points out next door on Tech Beat, Craig Moffett of Sanford Bernstein thinks these ads may be a sign that talks may have broken down between Apple and Verizon over CDMA version of the iPhone. He wonders if this may also be Verizon’s way of ratcheting up the pressure on Apple. Or maybe Verizon has walked away from the iPhone entirely. That would likely be good news for AT&T, rumored to be nearing the end of its agreement to carry the iPhone exclusively in the US.

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Reader Comments

qka

October 20, 2009 11:25 PM

All it means is that this time next year, Verizon will be extolling the virtues of the next iPhone wanna be, just like this time last year they were touting the RIM Storm. We all saw where that went.

vvv

October 21, 2009 09:05 AM

Hhmmmm... yahhh... Motorola...

wasn't this the company that once owned the handset market?... and now....

This is the end of the Iphone folks. Motorola has a new product and is on their way back to dominance.

Viva le Razor!!!

Daniel Middleton

October 21, 2009 10:48 AM

All of the claims are true. My iPhones don't do those things.

So what! I wouldn't benefit if they did. I have them because of all they Can do.

I don't think that many other people would care either.

AXA

October 21, 2009 11:47 AM

The only thing Apple has going on for them is writers pumping out headlines by 100s a minute to get clicks and some Hollywood studios showing Macs on their movies , as if PCs didn’t even exist. I think it is time for some real phones to come to existence than toys. They let Apple have a free run in the music business, this time though, with the phones they are going to nail down Apple permanently.

Leo

October 21, 2009 12:02 PM

You can see they are straining here to come up with anything they can. No open developement and no widgets??? Most people either don't know or don't care about open development, and also don't know the difference between a widget and app (there isn't really a difference actually).

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