Chixe

I was at my neighbor's place a few minutes ago, and he mentioned that he was getting a new phone this week and was thinking about the Motorola Q. I suggested an iPhone instead. He had several illogical and erroneous points as to why he wouldn't:

• he said Verizon had the "biggest" network in America
• he said the iPhone wouldn't run on Verizon's network because it wasn't "powerful" enough
• a guy he knew at the Verizon store said that Verizon was open their network to any phones in the near future.

There were a few other also, but this is sufficient for now. I tried kindly to explain that all of his points were wrong (maybe I should have given him something). After the Cingular merger, AT&T Wireless has more subscribers than any network in the U.S., although Verizon still has higher revenue. The iPhone won't run on Verizon's network because it isn't CDMA. Building it as a CDMA phone would have drastically reduced its worldwide appeal because most cellular networks outside of North America are GSM. Also, Verizon can't open their network to every phone because simply because the plurality, if not majority, of phones on the market are GSM and will never work on Verizon's current network. Verizon has offered to open their network to other CDMA phones, which include phones from these carriers: Alltel, Cellcom, Cellular South, Cricket Communications (from Leap Wireless), MetroPCS, Sprint PCS, U.S. Cellular. Not a rousing list, but better than nothing. I tried to tell him that keep up with my tech. All he said was "You always have to be right."

Anyways, besides getting this of my chest to someone that might possibly agree with me, or at least have some knowledge on the topic, I ask "Why do people argue about things they have little or no knowledge of?"

I am always right! ;)