Today was day 1 of the Apple WWDC and as always everyone sat on the edge of their seat for the new iPhone updates. A lot of the new specs have been out for weeks and Apple didn’t fail to deliver. MMS, cut/copy/paste, and 100 other featues will be in the new iPhone 3.0 OS. What bothered the crowd though? The fact that tethering will not be offered by AT&T (although it will be offered by 20 other carriers) and the fact that AT&T will not full support the MMS capability until late summer. Once again…Apple delivers and AT&T doesn’t. I understand that the iPhone is Apple’s “baby”, but AT&T always lets us down at iPhone time (crashed servers, poor customer support, conversion issues). This will be their third one and I guarantee that the iPhone 3GS launch will be just as much a clusterf**k as the initial iPhone launch. They’ve really gotten comfortable with their exclusivity deal. And sadly enough, we’ve made this ok. Listen up and listen well people. Don’t storm your local AT&T stores on launch day (June 19th, 3.0 software available June 17th). Wait a week or so and casually stroll in and pick one up without the hassle. Trust me when I say it’ll make your life easier.
Personally, I’m just going to update to 3.0 on the 17th and be perfectly happy until this time next year.
View Gizmodo’s live coverage here
iPhone 3.0 OS specs here
Update: AT&T will support tethering, but they we just don’t know when/how.
Lesson of the day: Apple is single-handedly sustaining AT&T.
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