I think one of the main reasons we haven’t seen the iPhone on Verizon (and why that’s not likely to change in the near future) is Verizon’s insistence on disabling all of the cool bits of a phone. They then charge you for those very same abilities, often in a degraded fashion. The first (and last) time I considered buying into Verizon was back in 2006, when the RAZR was a cool phone. I went with Cingular/AT&T and imported a phone from the UK, as the RAZR had all the interesting parts of bluetooth turned off – file/contact sync, etc. Because they wanted to force you into using their paid services. All I wanted to do was to backup my phone’s addressbook, and over that, they lost a customer.

Once people figure out how limited Verizon Android phones are, I wonder how long it will take for Android users to switch networks? Once their service contracts are finished, that is. ETF fees are the devil.

(Yes, I know AT&T is also the devil, in many, many other ways. All phone carriers I’ve dealt with deserve scorn.)