I was really disappointed that this article was yet another iPhone article (don't get me wrong - love my iPhone 4) and not about Mad Men.

Same. I thought it was about Betty Draper :(

Would you settle for a picture of Glen?

I felt so cheated. I thought there was finally a Gruber piece that I might be interested in, but it was a complete bait and switch.

In my apparent quest to get downvoted, I propose that Gruber should be a unit of measure for fanboism. Usage:

- "Did you see the new iPhone? I went from 0 to Gruber in under 4 seconds."

- "... all the way to eleven on the Gruber scale."

I was thinking the same thing. A bit strange to see gruber using an euphemism here (if that's what I think it is -- a jones for LTE?)

Is it possible that Google's hasty deal with Verizon is intended explicitly to prevent Apple from making a non-neutrality deal with Verizon?

Imagine it: Apple negotiates preferred status for Facetime and for Bing Search and Bing Videos (via a profit sharing deal with MS) or even Apple Video search bundled with the new cloud iTunes, all via iPhone and iPad on Verizon.

My take is that Google felt it was worth all the negative PR of the net neutrality reversal to prevent Apple from being able to have a non-neutrality upper hand in with the premier US mobile carrier. Think about it, only with a device like an iPhone 4G or iPad and a network like Verizon does non-neutrality offer significant advantages in the mobile space.

I'm not sure Verizon will over voice over LTE right out of the gate. Certainly the limited LTE footprint is going to require a CDMA radio to fall back on either way. It wouldn't surprise me at all if the first Verizon iPhone was CDMA only with an LTE/CDMA version launching in early 2012.

A LTE release might be good for exclusivity, especially if it means the iPhone being the first LTE-enabled phone. Uncongested airwaves for first comers. They could also put in a dual-band radio; IIRC the Evo has one for where WiMax isn't available.

Isn't Verizon's LTE going to be on the 700Mhz network that's supposed to be open to all (certified) devices?