You seem to be suggesting that the choice of AT&T was a bad one. How quickly we forget that AT&T was the only carrier that would allow Apple to develop the pho

You seem to be suggesting that the choice of AT&T was a bad one. How quickly we forget that AT&T was the only carrier that would allow Apple to develop the phone almost completely without influence. Verizon was choice #1, but they refused to allow Apple to have the control it wanted, then issued some kind of silly statement along the lines of "We felt that the user experience was beyond our control with the kinds of demands Apple was asking for". Which is true, but something Verizon just couldn't bear the thought of.