David Rosenthal: commitment

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…Droid does, baby. Verizon at this point is getting pummeled by at and t. It’s been two years since the iPhone launch. AT&T isn’t just stealing a lot of subscribers from Verizon because of the iPhone. They’re stealing the best subscribers, the people that are willing to pay the most money for the biggest price data plans for smartphones. Verizon finally decides like, we got to change the game here. We got to be able to compete with the iPhone. We’re going to go all in on Android. We are going to buy a device and make this our flagship smartphone, position it against the iPhone and we are going to invest hugely behind this thing. The device itself, the actual droid made by Motorola, was a great device. It had a big screen, big screen for the time, a slide out keyboard. It had a five megapixel camera, removable battery, all of these things. The iPhone didn’t have. Probably the most important feature it had though the killer, killer app was on the software side. It was the first Android device launched with Google Maps, turn by turn navigation. I didn’t realize that.…

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