Techblogger has only show his hatred to Sprint because they did not join WP8 at launch because of this deal with Apple. If that was the story, Sprint would had not gotten devices like the Galaxy s3, Galaxy Note, The Evo LTE (which is a One X Variant), the arriving soon HTC one, and the first LTE ready Direct Connect Kyocera Torque. He also forgets Sprint is in the middle of a nationwide rebuild of their 3G network (which supports SVDO)/LTE deployment, and since they are funding it in full they are cash strapped.
His biased point is to misiniform about the 16 billion dollars being paid all at once. Have in mind Sprint only needs to sell around 22-23 million units, and not counting the ones sold on Virgin Mobile, Sprint has sold about 8.4 million in the 4 1/2 quarters they have offered iOS devices, and that's not counting the quarter ending on March 31st.
Of course is easier to blame Sprint for the Windows Phone Woes, the broken China Mobile based coding Microsoft uses for CDMA currently used by Microsoft on Verizon, on why the biggest partner for WP8 (Nokia) is not interested in dealing with CDMA carriers in the US, and why is Microsoft pressing for time because of a deadline they have to meet with HTC, Samsung, Sprint, and especially the FCC when it comes to meeting current Qualcomm CDMA standards.
Sorry, but what I am expressing is the same thing the ones watching the situation have been saying, and to say Sprint has shown no interest on WP8 because of the 16 billion dollar deal is absurd and way off the reality when completely ignoring the Network Vision project, which once Softbank gets the final approval from the federal agencies involved, it will add a cash infusion of about 8 billion, which more likely will be used to put the Network Vision/LTE project in super overdrive.