AT&T Becomes the Laughing Stock at Apple’s Developer Conference

In today’s keynote at the Apple Developer Conference the new tethering and MMS features of 3.0 were discussed. While dozens of countries around the world will have the ability to take advantage of both at the launch of 3.0 in a few weeks the US will not be one of them. That’s because AT&T won’t be ready to launch these services until the end of the summer. This further fuels the fire that AT&T’s 3G network is bottlenecked by iPhone users. Users across the country have complained of slow 3G speeds as well as switching between 3G and EDGE. When conference attendees were told AT&T would not be ready until the summer there was a flood of laughter. It seems preposterous that Apple would release features their major US carrier could not support at launch. Tethering I can understand, but MMS? Give me a break. Apple didn’t even provide a good reason why there would be a delay on AT&T’s behalf. If you don’t have a reason there is nothing to say. AT&T looked bad today.