Why does AT&T fail so hard with the iPhone?

I know it’s not AT&T’s fault that the iPhone doesn’t support MMS, but their viewmymessage.com solution is awful. First off, it gives you a link, which the iPhone makes clickable, which is helpful except that you have to enter a special username and password provided in the text to retrieve this image. I know Apple is adding copy and paste, but for now it doesn’t have it so one has to either write down or remember the cryptic username and jump back and forth between safari and SMS. Then for some reason the password is made out of a two words and number so it is actually rememberable; so why not the username?!

The real question is, why not have the link clickable, preloaded with the username in the URL and the password rememberable? Or just have the link directly clickable with a hash in the URL?! If you are already being assumed the recipient of the message (being given the URL and Password), why not make the link go straight there?!

On top of this Safari doesn’t support flash and your whole effort has been in vain…

On top of that if you try using the computer you might run into one of these “Invalid path /1en/en/webnonsubscriber/viewmessage was requested”

Fuck you Att, all I want to see is a QVGA picture of my friend’s homemade macaroons and you can’t even do a crappy job of it…