Absolute nonsense piece in The Guardian asking if the iPhone is about to lose its mojo. I’m surprised how many people still read newspapers when they serve up piles of tosh like this. The Guardian is actually my favourite paper but this is one of the laziest and most one-sided pieces of journalism I’ve seen for a while.
There’s ample evidence available which shows that Verizon was desperate to get hold of the iPhone as its been struggling to attract new subscribers, something that AT&T has been doing at a much faster rate thanks to iPhone (and despite its much talked about inferior network quality).
The real story here should be whether Android can keep its momentum going now that the iPhone is available on both big networks, but the author prefers to say that the Verizon launch is too late to make a difference, despite the fact that smartphones only count for about a quarter of current US phone sales, leaving three quarters of the market still to play for.
You often just take what you read in the papers as being true, yet whenever they cover something that you have some knowledge of yourself you often see errors everywhere and this piece is no different. Poorly researched sensationalist rubbish that should have no place in a serious newspaper.