How can they develop for both sides of the fence without getting their butt stuck ON the fence?

It's very clear that mobile phone makers really don't care what consumers care.

Oh yeah, a collaboration that will yield an application that wont run on a device operated by people who wont give water to a dieing man.

Just what I've been waiting for.

hahaha... so in the first paragraph you say the "US Press" has "ignored the fact taht Verizon has also been talking with Microsoft," and then 4 lines later you admit that your source is the Wall Street Journal. Lest you forget, New York, NY is in the United States.

Verizon Also Uses Yahoo & AOL, 'cept neither write software. Verizon trys to stick YOU with MSN on dsl service. Once little boxes trick you, cann't undo msn from verizon, yet you can switch from yahoo or AOL To verizonMsn. Its pity, yet microoft writes code & telcos use code like never ending splurge.

So its backscratching deal, with little outside compitition, excepting Linux. Telco is UNIX Operation, so mainly $$$ Thing. You get what You would have paid for, as customer pays in end, nOT much difference in cost. Except You Just Might BUY Thru MSN involuntarily, with way its ALL Hooked together. Most customers wouldn't Know or Care, Much. MS offers More to public, In Any Event. drashek