I did some checking into the whole iPhone, AT&T, Verizon thing. Long story short: basically all phone companies are evil. Most costumers are willing to pay a lot of money over long term commitments for relatively basic services and almost no recourse if you don't like it. Yuck.
One Verizon customer summed it up as follows:
"Picking a cellular service feels like choosing a presidential candidate... you end up going with the choice which is slightly less nauseating."
I also heard a funny remark concerning crippled phones. Verizon especially likes to take away access to functions your phone could otherwise provide, until you pay for those functions up front or per use (i.e. out the nose). My Motorola e815 has all kinds of bells and whistles, but almost anything beyond talking will cost me 30¢ or more per use. So what would a future half-crippled Verizon iPhone be called? The "iph", as in "you can use this neat gadget iph you can afford to pay for it over and over again."
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