news.cnet.com — There's a disconnect between some video-streaming applications approved for 3G use in Apple's App Store and those, like SlingPlayer Mobile, which are limited to Wi-Fi access only. While Apple has certainly not been shy about exercising its veto power over App Store applications--just ask Trent Reznor, for example--it's unclear why Sling's...
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axtell2k5May 14, 2009
Hmm let's see. Apple builds the phone, AT&T provides the service. This isn't a f**king democracy, they get to choose what apps they want to allow. Don't like it? You don't get to vote.Listen you f**ks, stop complaining about s**t you don't get to complain about. It's their business, they can do what they want. If tomorrow they wanted to stop all apps starting with the letter O they could do it - it's their business. If I ran my own business and people complained about how I did things, I'd be a lot more blunt than at&t and apple and tell you all to shut it.
mike17102May 14, 2009
I feel the same way, I love the iPhone but I refuse to give up SlingBox and tethering.
brundlefly76May 14, 2009
OK, so in '09 AT&T is worried that the small subset of iPhone 3G users who ALSO own a $100+ slingbox AND buy this $30 application will overload its 3G network.Yet in 2006, AT&T had no problem whatsoever with *every single iPhone handset* having a *dedicated* icon to the world's most popular FREE streaming video application (YouTube) - when it was still only using EDGE!Uh, yeah, right.WTF
swookMay 14, 2009
Forget Slingbox. Give me Boxee, Hulu, and streaming Netflix already.
encephlavatorMay 19, 2009
I think the wallets have spoken.