Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Weekly AD Blog

Verizon: If This is Anything Like the IPhone, We Want In

Search engine giant, Google, have announced that they're currently in the process of not only producing a mobile phone, but providing a google user interface as well. The phone service would be free (what Google service isn't?) and the user interface is drawing interest from Verizon Wireless. To provide background information, Verizon and Google have had some trouble getting along in the past. But Verizon is putting aside their differences, according to officials. After passing up on the iPhone, Verizon is looking forward to what Google has to offer. With the staggering success of the iPhone, Verizon is trying to get their hands on the next killer product--hopefully in this case, something sweet from Google. There's nothing more funny and sweet then to see a major corporation, such as Verizon, get slapped in the face. We've all seen the youtube video of the CEOs of various competing companies laughing at Steve Job's face for trying to sell a 600 dollar phone. Now, they're heightening publicity about their involvement with Google as if this was what they had in mind from the beginning. I wonder where the official representative of Verizon who turned down the iPhone is now...

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1 comment:

camccune said...

"I wonder where the official representative of Verizon who turned down the iPhone is now..."

In the doghouse? (and wishing he was in the iPod-house...)