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points by pixl97 4 days ago | 0 comments

> including agents, teleconferences, gps navigation, video on demand, and many more things, pretty much none of which were actually brought into daily life by AT&T..

Apple may have built the phone, but AT&T is the network that carries it. Wasn't the first iPhones on ATT only?

[–] xp84 4 days ago

Kinda sorta. A tangled web of mergers led to the near-complete reassembly of the parts of AT&T by the time the iPhone actually shipped. It was announced on Cingular, but given that Cingular was always a joint venture of two of the RBOCs anyway, you can roughly round that to AT&T even if the "You Will" campaign was made by the smaller AT&T Long Distance company (since it was made after the Bell System breakup split the RBOCs off from "AT&T").

[–] MattDamonSpace 4 days ago

Cingular, technically

[–] solyin 4 days ago

You really want to get technical, Cingular Wireless was rebranded to AT&T Mobility between when the announcement was made in January, 2007, and the original iPhone was shipped in June, 2007.

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