Just last month, after the Verizon iPhone announcement, I recalled reading an article on the topic of Verizon Wireless turning down Apple on the original iPhone.

Fast forward a few years and Verizon may have blundered again.

http://pru.sh/gU1iQ4

Verizon Communications Chief Technology Officer Tony Melone was quoted in Spain, stating, “I don’t think Verizon needs the Nokia and Microsoft relationship…right now the three OS players we see for our network are Android, Apple, and RIM.”

I like to think of myself as platform agnostic. I love all things tech; I’m not taking sides for Microsoft over RIM here. But, why would anyone say this? You have two huge corporations (Microsoft and Nokia) forming an alliance for a mobile platform. You have no idea where things will go.  Keep your mouth shut and let the free market decide. All you have to do as the carrier is sit back, sell whatever device you can, and make your mint from your overpriced voice minutes, ridiculous text messaging price plans, and “unlimited” data plans that are actually limited.

After staring at my crystal ball, my speculation is that Verizon will regret this statement in the near future. They are already lining up a Windows Phone 7 device for availability. Once the Nokia devices start to roll, I wonder if we’ll hear a similar soundbite from Verizon CEO, Ivan Seidenberg when he talked last year about wanting to carry the iPhone: “We would love to carry it when we get there, but we have to earn it.” In a recent interview with The Wall Street Journal, he even said: “If the iPhone comes to us, it’s because Apple thinks it’s time.”

I even found an article about Verizon’s quarterly conference call with analysts http://pru.sh/eRa1wI where Seidenberg is quoted as saying, “What [Apple has] done has been successful, so we have to sit back and give them credit for that.”

Come on Verizon, don’t get ahead of yourself again!