Analyst: Apple will sell 35m iPhones next year, with or without Verizon

LOL. 35 Million iPhones? You do realize that that is nearly 3 million iPhones a month? As of Q1/2009 Apple sold nearly 18 million WORLDWIDE. That's 2 years and 18 million sold. This joker is predicting it will sell nearly 2x the amount it did in 2 years in ONE year? LOL! This is rich. Personally the iPhone is a dying product made for people who want to be in the "IN" crowd. Anroid, WebOS and even WinMo (6.5.x NOT WPS7) are much more robust and the devices they sit on much better in terms of quality and features as well.

why do you think verizon has so many iphone clones, their customers want an iPhone-like device. i think it would perform extremely well on verizon.

I switched off AT&T and went to Verizon as I am a surgeon and my phone is "mission critical." Verizon offers a microcell extender that gives me a cell tower in the house. I chose the HTC Touch Pro2 over Droid as I didn't want to start collecting Droid apps. Rather, TP2 can run Walking Hotspot, which turns the TP2 into a mobile Wifi router, allowing me to use iPhone and all the wonderful apps including my golf GPS apps. Using my laptop in the car (with someone else driving) is great. HTC does a reasonable job at hiding all the Windows Mobile ugliness, but WinMo does reach out and grab you every once in a while with inexplicable behavior requiring a reboot (by removing the battery). That said, I only need to do it about two or three times a week.

The voice quality is acceptable, but the standout feature is the strong bars all over the place.

Verizon is draconian in keeping control over its phones to the point of making them barely usable. The Verizon GPS app is annoying and nonintuitive. There really is no app store -just a web page. Getting the Walking Hotspot app from Handango took 30 minutes of cajoling. If Apple puts iPhone on Verizon, Verizon will have to be willing to take orders.

I may go back to AT&T when if it gets its act together. It's sin is a broken promise, but it has 21 months to redeem itself.

Isn't it true that with CDMA phones right now, your serial for your phone gets removed from the database by your provider if you cancel service, and you can't add other phones to your account, so you couldn't have a market for used CDMA iPhones?

This sort of restriction is one of the things that has kept me with GSM providers since my very first cellphone 10 years ago. Yeah, I know, I change my phone every 3 years or so anyway, but it's still a big deal. That, and Verizon used to be known as the big bad company who would lock down just about everything on phones anyway. (AT&T has that rap, now)

I've said it before and I'll say it again on TUAW, a CDMA smartphone of any kind wipes out one of the key benefits of said smartphone. And I don't think Apple wants this lack of functionality:

While on a call, your data shuts off.

Now, when I've told people this, they always tell me "oh big deal". But those same people either get CDMA penis envy or talk about how much they love the simultaneous connectivity when they do switch to GSM.

For example, you want a brand new song that just came out. You're pretty pumped to listen to it. You start the download, oh yeah, phone call. Not only does your download pause, it actually ends incomplete. So you'd have to restart said download if you ever get a voice call in the middle of it. On my CDMA smartphones I had the ability for an IM client in the background. This would reset EVERY TIME I had voice come in. That means a shit-ton of AOL System Msg telling me my phone is connected in multiple locations. For that matter, look to Apple's own commercials ("Can Your Phone and Your Network Do That?" for instance).

CDMA iPhone on VZW = meh
LTE iPhone on VZW = ZING!

Might as well just wait.

The day after Verizon aired the ad attacking the iPhone I quit Verizon and went to AT&T. My coverage is much better and I'm happy I switched.

Attacking the iPhone seems like a backwards way to market a phone you plan to sell in the future.

David Griffiths, We also have T-Moblie, Sprint, Pocket, and Nextel. People hope Verizon gets the iPhone for the network and customer service. Verizon and AT&T used to be the same company until the government broke it up as a monopoly.

Let's see, my iPhone worked in every country I went to in the last 3 years that I've had it. Hmm, now why would I want a phone that doesn't do that? That's why I would never go with Verizon (or ).

Can you imagine Apple confusing the market with a phone that carries a warning: Does not work in the rest of the world! ?

Why are people still wishing for a CDMA iPhone? Get it over with. The world use GMS/UMTS. Apple likes high profit margin, streamline and efficient production/lineup, and marketshare. Spending $$$ just to make a model for 1 carrier in 1 country is probably not worth it, considering that now they have different things to focus on like the iPad.

i have a friend that bought a droid eris when it came out - i thought he would give a tech head bashing to the iPhone, but all he said was that he couldn't wait any longer for the iPhone to come to Verizon.

that being said, i think the majority of people who were waiting for the iPhone to come to their network, have probably already bought a Droid or Nexus One. and if the iPhone does come to Verizon, you'll see people leaving at&t in droves. the balance will probably be the same.

as long as the total cost of ownership for a smartphone is high, you'll see the same amount of iPhones sold with slow growth. i feel that that's why the iPod Touch is doing so well.

LTE will be the answer. There is no motivation to create a phone that only one carrier in the world can use (ok, three (Mexico and Costa Rica)). It's not cost effective from a manufacturing standpoint. This is just an opinion of course, but it seems to be true so far. I believe Verizon will get the iPhone when LTE becomes a reality.