Verizon doesn’t care about BlackBerry or Windows Phone — it just wants to beat the iPhone
PandoDailyIt seems that Thorsten Heins and Steve Ballmer — the chief executives of BlackBerry and Microsoft, respectively — have a friend in Verizon Wireless CEO Dan Mead, who praised both companies‘ mobile efforts during an investor conference earlier today. Before Heins and Ballmer start struttin’ their stuff, however, they might want to consider why Mead is so excited about Windows Phone and BlackBerry 10, because the truth probably begins and ends with the iPhone. The iPhone line (Verizon sells the iPhone 4, 4S, and 5) accounted for 4 million of the 7.2 million smartphones activated on Verizon’s network last quarter. Despite the number of Android devices shipped each quarter, the relative novelty of Windows Phone devices, and, as Mead put it, customers with a “hunger for the qwerty keyboard” only available on BlackBerry devices, Apple reigned supreme. This isn’t something unique to last quarter, either. Some 63 percent of the smartphones activa








