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AT&T Approves 'SlingPlayer Mobile' Television Streaming Over 3G

Now, how about lifting that ridiculous limitation on downloading podcasts over 10mb from the iTunes store.
 
AT&T is just one of over 100 carriers offering iPhone. Are you guys going to run a story when each one of them allows it too?
 
Now how about turning on that iPhone tethering that was promised last summer?

It would be great if ATT was approving these data intensive apps out of the goodness if their heart but I feel like it could be the first steps toward a tiered data structure.
 
This is pretty cool news, Sling Player with 3G functionality might just be the "killer app" that makes the iPad great, especially since Apple hasn't gotten the tv streaming together yet, and their content in the iTunes Store is meager and expensive.
 
I guess this is the real reason Apple hasn't enabled Flash on its iPhone or iPad: they're scared that AT&T's network can't handle all the extra video streaming via Hulu and whatnot.
 
neiltc13 said:
AT&T is just one of over 100 carriers offering iPhone. Are you guys going to run a story when each one of them allows it too?
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Perhaps the larger question is, do announcements like this mean that everyone around the world that *isn't* using at&t and its stupid data setup going to continue to be restricted by Apple as to what data intensive applications we can access and use?

EyeTV have an application the does a very similar thing, and has been restricted to wifi streaming...what happens to them??

I pay for 1gb of data a month with my telco and they couldn't give a rip whether I use it streaming video, making voip calls, or downloading podcasts.

How Apple ended up in a situation where one single telco had governance over the types of applications that get approved globally I don't know...but sooner they are out of it, the better for everyone both around the world AND in the US.

Jay
 
ldkaplan said:
I'm curious if the app is going to change content quality depending if you are on 3g or wifi.

I know folks have jailbroke phones with the 3g hack...how is quality streaming over 3g?
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I'm really excited about this news. This was the ONLY reason I jailbroke. Now I can just go back to official apple firmware again and not have to worry about updates.

To answer your question regarding 3G streaming quality. As long as I have a couple of bars in 3G mode the quality is the same as wifi streaming. Occassionaly I'll experience a momentary dropout but with my directv dvr source the program will pick right up at the same point it cutoff before the dropout.
 
I'v said this before, my experience with at&t has been quite good, but I digress. Some observations: The Sling announcement is bigger for the iPad than the iPhone, though important to both. EyeTv 3G and others access will follow as will others. And with the happiness surrounding the iPad price points, at&t will assume that iPhone users will be happy paying a similar or slightly reduced fee for tethering. I believe it is the pricing strategy more than technical issues that are holding it up. They want it welcomed not slammed when announced.

I think we may see tethering offered for about $20 extra a month for iPhone users as well as mixed plans for the iPhone.

$15 for 250 MB month
$30 unlimited
$50 with tethering

This will likely be announced either with the iPad launch or with the launch of the next iPhone. If they want to be aggressive, they may reduce fees 1 or 2.
 
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