Hey, guys, I don’t mean to interrupt your Saturday or anything, but AT&T has something very important to say regarding the letter from the FCC it received.
It is, and I quote directly from the e-mail AT&T just sent us:
AT&T does not manage or approve applications for the App Store. We have received the letter and will, of course, respond to it.
But of course. So casual, despite the fact that the FCC is breathing down its neck.
The first sentence represents, I think, AT&T throwing Apple “under the bus,” to use that dumb cliché. A sort of, “Hey, guys, don’t get mad at us. Apple’s calling the shots here.”
You have to assume that Apple and AT&T aren’t the best of friends right now.
What a giant, unnecessary headache all of this is. And for what, really? A silly iPhone App? Come on.
Jawsome!
I’m imagining the AT&T execs laughing with glee over this one, finally getting to ream Apple after dealing with their preciousness for so long.
they definitely aren’t laughing. apple and the iphone have been essential to att’s business. they want to renew exclusivity and want a healthy relationship with apple.
I can’t wait for the movie adaption to be released, through the AppStore of course :)
Well we can expect an iPhone soon from Verizon. You know Steve Jobs ain’t taking none of this BS from AT&T. And when Verizon does end up getting the iPhone, customers are going to drop AT&T in heartbeat. http://ziggytek.com/
Sure. The Verizon will do exactly the same as AT&T.
Here’s your coffee: wake up and smell it.
I’m not dropping AT&T. If you think verizon is any better just try to visit apple.com, tmobile.com, or att.com on a verizon phone. And you think AT&T is bad hah.
Of course this was Apple, they could have approved it for the iPod Touch but didn’t.
Well if Apple wants to screw AT&T – they approve Google Voice – as well as every other Voice over IP apps they’ve turned down and just say “well, it’s all our decision, so why not.”
And to agree with Bosey, there are a lot of people that don’t realize that Verizon has been one of the more restrictive carriers in terms of allowing features on phones – talk to anyone that owned the Razor. Verizon removed a ton of features that were available on AT&T and T-mobile.
Are you really surprised at how fast the FCC jumped on this? Lets look at some facts.
Who controls the FCC?
The three chairmen appointed by the current president.
Who served on the current president’s transition team and help raised oddles of money?
Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google
Who is pushing for electronic medical records?
The White House, and of course Eric Schmidt and Google
Eric and Google are the unofficial technology Czars at the White House. Watch for Google to get its way, in a big way, over the next three and a half years.
The FCC got involved a little too fast over just one application getting nixed. I’m not much of a black helicopters guy, but this smells of black helicopters and tinfoil hats.
If Apple continues on its current course of total control of the phones/apps, users will abandon ship for something cheaper, less controlled, and new. Look how fast the Macbook Air was rendered useless by a $300 netbook.
Google controls the government and the macbook air has been killed by the eeepc? You sir, are a master of reason.
Say, “Whaaat?!”
AT&T have already replied to the FCC! http://www.intoyourheadpodcast.com/blogpressexperiment/?p=401
STUPID FCC!!!!!!!! I NEVER LIKED THEM. http://askthecollegekid.blogspot.com/