[alteria]

The whole presentation I was wondering how much Verizon paid as well.

Between the pricing reveal and the conflation of their 28GHz deployment as a standard 5G experience, it seemed like it was the iPhone sponsored by Verizon.

[WWLink]

I wonder if that means we'll start seeing iPhones with carrier branding.

[cglong]

Like the whole AT&T "5Ge" thing that Apple gave in on? :(

[orev]

The carrier contracts likely don’t give any leeway on that. They just provide the image and Apple has to show it.

[kindatrue]

Contracts never stopped Steve Jobs from doing what he thought was right for his customers.

[geerlingguy]

I know he was sad to see his TV/Movies/VOD plans fall through and eventually the 'meh' Apple TV concept was born.

[Schiendelman]

They most certainly did - like having Maps go out half-baked because they couldn't get a contract for what they wanted.