wait what? because i'm not in denial about how important the iphone is for verizon this makes me a fanboy? if i wanted an iphone i'd have one. do you assume that i use my droid daily and then lay in bed with my picture of an iphone and talk to it before going to sleep, promising never to let anyone know how much i love it? that's weird. we've been going back and forth for a couple of months now about this and i think it's your blind awe and fascination with android that's disturbing.
to keep on with your theme, your the guy that sees the mercedes, lexus, bmw and think they're in the same class as the ferrari. they're not. android is great, it's not ios. you're the guy who would swear up and down that the lexus is just as good as the ferrari, when everyone around you knows it clearly isn't. maybe a need to feel like you made the right decision? undoubtedly. i know i made the right decision when i chose android, for several reasons. one of those reasons wasn't because it's better than ios. because it's not. however, i'm a geek, and android is about as geeky as it gets. there's so much you can do, so much you can learn, and so much freedom with android and that's what drew me to it. i make the most out of my droid. not because "OMG it's an iphone killer!! ios sucks"...that's blind and foolish. further, i dont need to justify my android purchase by downplaying ios. android works for me, iphone doesn't, but iphone works for millions upon millions and will outsell every android phone on VZW combined as well as shatter it's own sales records. Once an LTE version comes along, forget about it.
i'll say it again. talk to me when the iphone sales numbers are released. you keep downplaying those numbers as "upgrades"...i hope that you don't really think that 300,000 brand new people are signing up for android devices everyday. clearly the overwhelming majority of those are upgrades too (probably cuz the phone they bought 8 months ago is now EOL :icon_eek: ).
and again with "crushed iphone sales"...it took 70+ devices to "crush" one device. stop downplaying what's in front of your face. this is like me saying i own nissan, honda, toyota and ford car dealerships in new york, miami, los angeles, chicago and atlanta and i "crushed" your kia dealership in provo, utah. i mean...great? is that really a huge accomplishment? i think it's more impressive that your kias were barely outsold by all the varieties of my cars in 5 cities. there is no real comparison between the wide availability and variety in android and the rigidity of ios. the real telling thing is that ios has been able to stick around even with that much competition. and by stick around i don't mean barely stick around. android barely outsells ios, not "crushes" it.
you and i have gone through every possible argument with this. first you were claiming that apple would never release an iphone on verizon because it would cannibalize itself, then you said there's no pent up demand for the iphone on verizon and anyone who wanted it would have already gotten it (clearly every analyst on the planet disagrees with you, and i think they have a little bit more credibility), then you claimed that the iphone on verizon is "old tech" all the while claiming that the D1 is still relevant (what?), then you claimed that verizon didn't need the iphone and acted like apple was begging them or something, and now you're claiming that the reason verizon is thinking about throttling is not because of the millions of new subscribers they're going to get from the iphone, but rather because of LTE which (1) is barely available and (2) very, very few people are going to be utilizing for at least 2 years. you're not going to see a huge influx of bionic or thunderbolt users next week, clamoring to get their 4g on. if you're waiting for that you'll be sorely disappointed.