The Storm is a let down. I think it is due to Verizon and their limitations on hardware. Maybe there will be some updates to improve the software and functionality of the phone. It was slow and did not respond quickly to my rotations. I think RIM will issue quite a few software updates over the next year or so.

I am like many people out there. I like Verizon’s coverage and I want an iPhone. AT&T sucks! I think Verizon and Apple made a huge mistake on not getting together for the iPhone. HUGE! I do not think Verizon will recover from this blunder. The Storm is a good phone but the iPhone just crushes it. Wow! The Storm is not going to pull off the upset. RIM will have to listen to all of there customers and respond quickly in order to compete with the iPhone. The phone should have WiFi. Verizon just puts too many unnecessary barriers on the phone. What a waste of time! I am done with Verizon. They do not care. Ego’s got in the way of getting the iPhone on the Verizon Network and one CEO (Jobs) is laughing while the other, Lowell McAdam is crossing his fingers on the Storm. I will let him sleep a little longer before I break his heart. Oh No…he is a sleep in the Matrix…nevermind. He will never wake up.

FierceWireless: You mentioned the iPhone. Do you have any regret passing on that?

McAdam: None whatsoever.

FierceWireless: Why not?

McAdam: When we evaluate a product we look at the customer experience. We look at the technology of it and we look at the financial model around it. From a customer perspective we didn’t like the restricted distribution. We didn’t like the fact that we were being asked not to service customers. Let’s just assume the model you see from AT&T is what they asked us to do, so I’m not divulging anything. We have a huge network of stores and we put a lot of investment into training our people. The model was to say to a customer ‘thanks for coming in, now go down the street to Apple and they’ll take care of you.’ We didn’t like the customer model. The technology was stuff that could have been dealt with.

The financial model, if you assume the financials that the European countries have said publicly what theirs was, we’ve made a $40 billion investment in our network in the last eight years. I don’t think that revenue split was commensurate with the investment we made in the network. We are very happy with that decision.

As we roll out the Voyager, we are going to be happier. The Voyager takes things to the next level.

Source: http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/hot-seat-verizon-wireless-ceo-lowell-mcadam/2007-10-30