The worst thing about tethered updates is when my computer (running Windows) goes to sleep trying to download the ridiculously large file. When I wake it up, it has to start downloading all over again. Why? How can a company get some stuff so right and other stuff so wrong? convert mts to avi The iPhone 4 shortage from AT&T is complete rubbish.I’ve been watching the releases of each iPhone in the US since each of their first day.For example, for the iPhone 3G, we were able to determine that there were at least 2000 on launch day at my local Apple store. The AT&T store in the same wing of the mall had about 150 total. They were sold out within the first hour and no replenished stock for at least two weeks, to which they would trickle in less than a dozen at a time.Now, ask yourself: why would the “exclusive US carrier” of the iPhone only have less than 10% stock of iPhones available to sell?COMMISSION. The suit-wearing at the top of AT&T likely decided that Apple can go about their casual business and sell their iPhones with the mandatory AT&T activations and contract renewals, and they wouldn’t have to pay a penny in commissions.After I got my 3G and perused the mall, I walked into the now-empty AT&T store, and all the sales reps were leaning on the counter, staring at the flooded Apple store across the wing, line still wrapped around the corner until the end of the night.If AT&T doesn’t care about their own employees, what makes you think they care about us as customers?The only reason they’re blowing out iPhone 3GS is because either Apple sold it to them cheap to dump stock in favor of the iPhone 4, and/or they know just as well as we do that they’re no longer exclusive to the iPhone, and they’ll do anything (including taking an upfront loss) to lock in the last few suckers into a two-year plan with a device about to be two generations old.
