MacDailyNews Take: For the umpteenth time: Take those 10+ million U.S. iPhones off AT&T and plop them on Verizon and watch AT&T satisfaction soar (especially in metro areas) and Verizon come to a grinding halt. No carrier, including Verizon's, is ready for 10+ million devices that are actually used for serious data consumption. Verizon's network accommodates inferior devices that only sip data in comparison to iPhone due to their unusable web browsers (if they even have them) and generally indecipherable user interfaces which, only benefits the carrier as they get to sell phones on features that most people will never use. The iPhone's ease-of-use (snap a photo or even shoot a video and send it over AT&T's network to wherever; robust, real Web Browsing; data-consuming apps which include streaming video over 3G, etc.) combined with the vast, rapidly-growing number of iPhones would cripple any carrier. If AT&T can't get a handle on it, Apple would do well to reconsider their exclusive U.S. arrangement and spread the wealth - and the data consumption - to other carriers, as soon as (technically and legally) possible. Hughes continues, "In a daily survey of 5,000 people 18 and older, YouGov's BrandIndex tracks companies based on factors of quality, value, satisfaction, recommendation, reputation and impression. When combining those categories, AT&T's index score of 18.3 on June 16 had eroded to a 14.6 on Thursday... [YouGov's senior vice president Ted Marzilli] "suggests the issue can be traced to the launch of the iPhone 3GS -- or, more specifically, the network's inability to meet the bandwidth needs of users with the device." MacDailyNews Take: No wireless network was ready for Apple's revolution which brought 10+ million of devices that actually use copious

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