If you've been scouring the dictionary for sour grapes, chances are you'll find
Ivan Seidenberg's picture. Verizon Communications' chairman and chief executive recently sat down for an interview with
Financial Times, and while he spent the vast majority of his time boasting of just how amazing Verizon is, he did stop to remark about Cupertino ever so briefly. Granted, he did start off by admitting that Apple was a "great company," but that didn't stop him from pillorying the iPhone as well as Dear Leader himself. He actually accused the interviewer of "declaring [Apple] a winner before it had earned it on the field," suggesting that the iPhone wouldn't become a mass-market handset simply because the
next iteration will be subsidized. He also stated that "Mr. Jobs had no monopoly on innovation," and took the conversation even further off track by blurting that "Steve Jobs eventually will get old." At least Keystone knows where to find its next bitter beer face, right?
[Via
The Inquirer, image courtesy of
Pace, thanks Frank]
posted July 1st 2008 9:41AM
...and it's been confirmed Tom Hanks will be playing the part of Ivan Seidenberg in the upcoming Verizon Biopic.
Somebody is bitter that they said no to the iPhone when Apple offered it to them first. :-)