Mr. MacPhisto
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They still should have safeguarded their investment. Would you buy a brand new porche and never get insurance just because you didn't have to? Do you trust all of your electronics enough to never make a backup?
If they went so far as to do all of this work before any contract was drafted, then it's their own fault. They could have done a contract without exclusivity that would at least have garunteed their investment. E.G. the non-exclusivity agreement.
Don't get me wrong. If this is true then Nokia pulled a slimeball move. but Verizon not covering there backs is just poor business.
They do have their backs covered.
Verizon is satisfied with the sales of the Motorola Droid devices and they sell their fair share of Galaxies.
They do have a plan B, but they invested a lot of time, training, and money into plan A. As I said, if they did not have promises they may have waited to launch WP8 until later but Microsoft and Nokia said they wanted both AT&T and Verizon to be there to start the platform. And that makes sense. And they wanted both to have the premiere phones from all manufacturers. Again, makes sense.
AT&T, though, is usually concerned when they have the same top end phones as Verizon because Verizon tends to outsell them. They lost a lot of iPhone users to VZW and seem to have an inferiority complex, so they tend to pay out a lot of money for phones to try to get people on board.
It is two different philosophies.
The Verizon people still like WP8 and its potential. They love the platform, but they don't feel they can trust any of the players at this moment.