The inside story of how Verizon didn’t launch the first iPhone
AT&T famously launched the first Apple iPhone in 2007, and the GSM-based device stayed exclusive to AT&T in the United States for five full years. But, according to a new book by Verizon’s Ivan Seidenberg, the carrier’s management did meet with Apple’s Steve Jobs before Apple launched the first iPhone with AT&T, and the company’s management attempted to get Jobs and Apple to build a CDMA version of the gadget for Verizon.
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