but the iPhone has something that the droid doesn't - it has the Apple name behind it.
To me, the Apple brand has continued to mean "cool but expensive and incompatible." Buying a phone because it's Apple-branded is like buying a backpack for the Nike "swoosh." Rather foolish, unless you're really into "swooshes."
Not new. That rumor's a couple months old. People were previously speculating for why VZW was looking to push LTE deployment and noticed that several of the deployment targets corresponded with AT&T/Apple contract renewal and locations of heavy iPhone usage. -- The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. -- Bertrand Russell