AT&T CEO Caught Gulping Down a Whole Jug of Apple Flavored Haterade

What an extraordinary flip-flop. Now AT&T has bad things to say about Apple�s App Store?
Where was this public bemoaning over the past few years? Where was the outcry while AT&T was reaping the financial benefits of an exclusive relationship with Apple in the US?
Now that Apple has diversified its portfolio with the advent of the Verizon iPhone 4, AT&T�s CEO is caught waffling on his love�

�You purchase an app for one operating system, and if you want it on another device or platform, you have to buy it again,� AT&T�s CEO Randall Stephenson lamented. �That�s not how our customers expect to experience this environment.�
Now granted, he could in theory be talking about Android as well, but let�s be real about this, when you think of AT&T, you think of iPhone. This is clearly a thinly veiled jab at its one time exclusive business partner.
But why be bitter over things now? It�s not like Apple totally ditched AT&T and went exclusive with Verizon.
Instead, Stephenson is now publicly endorsing WAC, or the Wholesale Applications Community, an �App Store� that is platform agnostic if you will.
Yeah, I know what you�re thinking, that seems D.O.A to me as well.
What do you think about Stephenson�s words of wisdom? Agree much?

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