Maybe it's more work for the team that does the hardware design, though a majority of the hardware components would be shared. What you get for that extra work is access to Verizon and Sprint's customers. There are a lot of them.
Obviously, the lucrative exclusive contract is the reason they didn't go that way. Were it not for that contract, there would be a CDMA iPhone, and it would be on Sprint and Verizon. Making your phone available to more subscribers is going to be worth the extra cost and duplication of supply chains and yadda yadda.
Anyway, none of this really has anything to do with the issue that ATT had some poor security on some of the data on its web site.
No, but you made a false statement about how Apple had no choice other than AT&T. They had plenty of choices, but they picked the lucrative AT&T exclusive deal.
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