A Tale of Two Companies...

If you did not hear(means you might be in a coma)...the Apple iphone is coming out this month - June 29th to be exact. Interestingly enough AT&T felt they would not get enough publicity out of that action this month, that they also released information about their new policy of "spying on their customer."

WHAT?!?

You read it right, Cord at Marketing Hipster, gave us this great article which details AT&T's new policy in regards to helping the RIAA and MPAA find illegal downloaders.

So the same company that has exclusivity to the soon to be legendary iPhone is now acting as 'Big Brother'...sort of like a 70's hippie leaving the Dead Tour to work for the DEA....these two actions just don't seem to fit together in the same sentence.

Apple's brand and iPhone excitement seems pretty impenetrable, BUT if AT&T is looking at what you download off the net, its only a matter of time until they listen to what you are saying over the air...(warning, bad pun coming up) maybe they will need to rename it the 'spiPhone.'

(Cord, thanks for a couple of great posts this week in which i tracked and commented, and congrats on the wedding news.)

Comments

[Cord]

Thanks Randy for the kind words and shout out...