When I first read about the possibility of the iPhone 4G, or whatever it will end up being, arriving on Verizon I got very excited.  See, I’m currently a Verizon 2-year-indentured servant, and while I love the service (full bars almost everywhere on campus, even my building’s basement) and I’m overall satisfied with my Blackberry (it’s got some issues but it gets the job done), nothing compares to an iPhone.  Browsing, media and most of all apps are just lightyears ahead on the iPhone and no product in Verizon’s foreseeable future is going to make any headway in closing the gap.

So, as you might assume, I’ve been considering switching to AT&T for a while.  Yes, they have vastly inferior service, but I go back and forth on whether having a iPhone would be worth the occasional dropped call.  The iPhone making it’s way to Verizon would be huge for me; I could have the best of both worlds.

Then, instants later, I began to think about it in the context of what I’ve known since I got my first Verizon slider-piece-of-shit in 8th grade: Verizon is evil.  Setting aside the user interface genocide they have committed over the years, their actions as a company lack any respect for their customers.  One example, of many: they cripple the Bluetooth and GPS on their phones, in a blatant money-grubbing, customer-fucking scheme.  My Blackberry Curve has a wonderful GPS receiver, but the excellent Mobile Google Maps can’t access it; only VZNavigator has that privilege, which costs crazy amounts of money a month. This is just wrong.  If I buy a phone with a GPS receiver, why shouldn’t I be able to use it?  Same goes for Bluetooth (although, admittedly, Apple has done much the same thing in that department.)

Now, no one knows where this “iPhone coming to Verizon” story originated, but I wouldn’t be the least surprised if it’s Verizon’s doing, and they have no real intention of caving to Apple’s demands.  Although they have hit a couple “minor” bumps (Blackberry Storm anyone?), Verizon still seems to think they can beat Apple, but is deathly afraid of customers (me) jumping ship before they can whip up something appetizing enough.  So, until I see Steve Jobs (or Timothy Cook or whoever is in charge at that point) shaking hands with the Verizon CEO on-stage during a keynote address, I’m not buying it.  Verizon has tried squeezing every last penny out of their wireless contracts, treating their customers like so many dairy cows, so it shouldn’t be difficult to imagine them using a cattleprod like this to keep us all corralled until it’s time for our next milking.