The rumors that Apple and Verizon are working on agreement to bring the iPhone to the Verizon network seem to be gaining momentum.

AT&T’s exclusive deal with Apple for the iPhone will expire in 2011. Verizon is hoping to sign a deal to add the iPhone on Verizon’s network which currently has more the 80 million subscribers.

I, for one, never considered buying an iPhone because I have been a happy Verizon customer for many years and never considered leaving for AT&T. Switching networks is a lot more of a pain than switching phones within that network. I went with the Apple iPod touch and just kept my old phone.

The USA Today article mentioned that Verizon obviously has a lot to gain in the deal, AT&T obviously has a lot to lose in the deal, and Apple would gain a lot by having more potential customers. At the end of the article they mention one way that Apple would gain would be people that have been unhappy with the AT&T service and switch to Verizon would have to buy a new phone which would be even more sales for Apple.

So, you will not be able to just switch your SIM card. The AT&T network uses the GSM Network whereas the Verizon network uses CDMA. Now that the cell phone companies have agreed to use the Micro USB format for the chargers, maybe we could get them to work on a universal network protocol to make it easier for customers to keep a phone when they switch providers.

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AT&T just committed a serious faux pas by spamming millions of their users with text messages to remind them to tune into American Idol. AT&T denies that their act was spamming because they only sent the texts to heavy texters and people who have voted on American Idol using text messages.

There has been a backlash. People do not want companies randomly sending them text messages and that’s just one of dozens of places I read unhappy about the spam.

My question is why even bother with text messaging anymore. I just have a normal boring cell phone and I made Verizon disable texting on my account because I never sent any outbound and the inbound were never messages that I wanted to receive.

But even more important than that is the fact that we are quickly heading into an age when most people will no longer need text messages.

I have an iPod Touch and anywhere that I can get Wi-Fi, I can use email, chat, or services like Twitter and Facebook. For people with the iPhone or other smartphones, they can access these types of services anywhere they can get a signal.

With that kind of power, why bother with texting anymore?

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