AT&T spews FUD, keeps analyzing.

Wired has gone after AT&T for some clarification on exactly what it meant by "analyzing the [Android] situation".

Epicenter, the Wired business blog, got AT&T to talk, and here are the questions the mobile carrier brought up:

# What will customers get on an Android-powered phone that they can't get on their current devices? New content? New applications?
# Will the system be secure enough to prevent viruses, hacking and other potential problems?
# What safeguards will be in place to protect customer's privacy?
# If Gmail is the default e-mail, how easy will it be for customers to access other email platforms?

AT&T may have legitimate concerns here, but by raising them it fulfills a propagandist role as well: spread around a little FUD and undermine the potential competition.

I say screw 'em. AT&T is the old fuddy-duddy of the mobile carrier game; nobody's gonna be surprised or disappointed if they don't join up.