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To be fair (at the time) AT&T's Bell Labs division was the one producing those prototypes. So it may not be AT&T that is wholly responsible for it, but Bell Lab
by zinekeller 6y ago
To be fair (at the time) AT&T's Bell Labs division was the one producing those prototypes. So it may not be AT&T that is wholly responsible for it, but Bell Labs did kickstart most of these. Well, except the phone booths :)
(Also, the alternate interpretation is that AT&T is providing the interconnection necessary to power these innovations, for one the iPhone was introduced by AT&T (mainly because they were the only willing ones to allow Apple to update them independently) so in a more pragmatic sense AT&T did deliver the future. But on the flipside, some might consider it to be cheating.)