[Staszek]

I was about to say that AT&T is the largest but someone beat me to it.

Also many people on this board are talking to US centric and not thinking about the big picture.

Personally I dont think it makes financial sense for Apple to make a Verizon version. The cost to make two platforms is fairly high, its not as bad for other companies that make several cell phones, but for Apple its currently just one phone and thats a lot of R&D and production costs to make the CDMA version. (not to mention what everyone else stated about Verizon crippling everyone phone on its network).

Think of it globally.

By the end of 2007 GSM based phones held about 87% of the market globally.

As much as some people may not like AT&T here, I think Apple made a better decision going the GSM route as it opened up a MUCH larger audience then it would have had going CDMA.

That being said there are talks that Verizon may be headed GSM themselves in the future or at least run dual networks which would open the door for the iphone.