3G Sucks

A Time article today reports how 3G has misbehaved for a number of carriers.

If you're an iPhone user you may have noticed erratic behavior as I and my friends have.

As the article points out, the antics of the 3G network smear mud on iPhone apps. Regardless of whose "fault" it is the bottom line is that if you have 3G turned on you can get some flaky results using some iPhone apps and this leads to a perception, and frankly the perception of a reality, that the iPhone is not delivering for you like it should all the time.

What does it matter if the iPhone or any of the software technology that runs on it is at fault or not? That's a problem that Apple should take care of for you right?

So we then logically follow the path from the iPhone "back" through the technology and causes, find out that 3G sucks, then go back to AT&T, then go back to how 3G was selected or where the technology problems might be.

That's too far back for me to know the details but it all amounts to a disappointment on a grand scale.

I wonder who dropped the ball? Was it the giant corporation cutting corners or was it lame technologists?

I'd like to know.

-Forsyth