My oh my, the Wall Street Journal is reporting for the 9,837,271st time that Verizon (VZ) will begin selling the Apple (AAPL) iPhone.
I can’t tell you how many times this rumor has been spun around – but the chart above sure can!
As a victim of the HTC Droid Incredible’s lousy battery life (great phone otherwise), I can’t tell you how badly I want to ditch Android for the iPhone.
Plus, if Verizon began carrying the iPhone, the stock would probably gap up 10-15% in the blink of an eye.
Verizon Wireless serves 92.1 million wireless customers, so I imagine that Apple would easily sell 5 million more iPhones per year, adding $3+ billion in revenue a year to Apple.
However, I don’t think it’s going to happen. Verizon is well-known for exercising serious control over what gets put on the phones it sells, and typically pushes its much-maligned V-Cast media-distribution system onto customers.
And if you owned a Motorola (MOT) RAZR on Verizon, you know how easily this type of mentality can ruin the user experience.
Apple, on the other hand, ships all of its products with no distracting bloatware, and would not stand for such nonsense.
If they can work this out, I’d be a pretty happy camper – even though I’m locked in with my Droid until 2012.
Source: WSJ
disclosure: long AAPL
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