gergles Greg Premium join:2003-05-30 South San Francisco, CA
Because they basically own Apple for at least a few more months and can force Apple not to approve apps they don't like (or to cripple them to worthlessness, like this one).
Note to Apple: as long as you keep pulling stunts like this, people are going to keep jailbreaking their phones, they're going to keep going outside your walled garden, and they're going to keep using their phones the way THEY want to.
"That said, we don't restrict users from going to a Web site that lets them view videos. "
sounds like bandwidth isn't really the problem. why is AT&T lying?
Where do you get that?
The difference is Sling will detect the maximum reliable speed of the link. Then someone can sit and watch live TV for 6 hours at a time at maximum link speed. I can see why they don't want that allowed.
Youtube videos are already limited in quality, and it's far less likely that someone's going to gobble those up continuously. -- AT&T U-Hearse Your funeral. Delivered.
Ummmm they've been allowing it for YEARS. I've had my Slingplayer for Smartphones for more than three years. I use it almost every day in my lab at work.
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