Vincent Ferrari
04-23-2009, 07:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.precentral.net/att-vs-pre-internal-document-smackdown-oh-no-you-didnt' target='_blank'>http://www.precentral.net/att-vs-pr...oh-no-you-didnt</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"Want more evidence that the Pre release is imminent? How about AT&T sending a document around their internal network for employees to bone-up on some anti-Pre, pro-iPhone talking points ...and then holding some in-store seminars for employees to make sure they get the message?"</em></p><p><img height="386" src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/at/auto/1240488796.usr18053.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #d2d2bb;" width="541" /></p><p>I've been in the wireless business for 12 years now, and I've seen these types of competitive intelligence documents from every single carrier every time the competition is about to release a big new product, so this certainly isn't an AT&T exclusive tactic. That being said, I hate these things with a passion because most of them are so overwrought with stretches, reaches, and silliness, that they're borderline lies.</p><p>Anyway, take this for what it's worth, but remember that it isn't from Apple and doesn't mean anything as far as Apple goes (unlike <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/22/leaked-atandt-doc-slams-the-palm-pre/" target="_blank">Engadget's ridiculous contention</a> that because AT&T is writing this kind of stuff, it speaks for Apple, also). This is an AT&T thing, and they've done it before. No proxies involved.</p>