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Brett_Tabke - 7:11 pm on Nov 5, 2007 (gmt 0)
Niether one is an issue. Verizon has closed/locked handsets and would not join something like this until forced to do so. AT&T's are *not* locked and thus - no problemo with alternate manufacturer phones. Here is the important part: HTC Corporation, LG Electronics, Inc., Motorola, Inc., Samsung Electronics, Qualcomm Inc., Texas Instruments Incorporated Those companies are enough to flood the market with chips and handsets running on the open platform. Verizon will open - because they will be forced to open. > I don't think it's even a swipe at Microsoft. Microsoft is making big $$$ off smart phones and pda based phones right now. Big - big bucks and if not challenged - they stand to dominate the entire sector for the next decade. > I don't see a consumer outcry to let Google in, It's not about Google - it is about the phones that will run Android. I just switched mobile phone networks for the first time in 7 years. Why? They didn't have the phone I wanted on the "other" network. That was true for millions of iPhone owners, as well as PDA owners. Sorry verizon - it aint about the network no more.
> Verizon and AT&T visibly absent