Sprint Customers: How do you feel about not being able to get iPhone 4s?

I, like many Sprint customers, stayed with Sprint even through all the iPhone craze in the hopes that Sprint will be getting the iPhone soon. Now, Sprint will be getting the iPhone 4S announced Oct. 4, however, Sprint changed it's upgrade policy on Oct. 2, how convenient. So if you used your upgrade last year and were looking forward to your next 12 month upgrade, hopefully for the iPhone, you're are now SOL. Because you can't upgrade until 2012. They went from 12 months to 20 months for the next upgrade, saying there was too much "customer confusion". I understand that Sprint is allowed to change their policy at any time, but it was just the way they did it that was suspect. Last month I was eligible for my upgrade and thought I could just wait for the iPhone, now this month I'm not eligible. They didn't give advanced warning, they didn't send out an email, they basically told their loyal customers to drop dead and you can't have an iPhone. People were highly upset overt this and I will be paying my early termination fee and maybe going to Verizon. Something I obviously should have done years ago. I wanted to know how everyone else feels about this.