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EyeTV iPhone App Pulled by Apple, Revised Version Submitted

I thought the purpose of the phone was to make phone calls?
The rights issue is FAR more complex than anyone has mentioned here. 34 years working in the broadcast industry has taught me that.
It's ATT's network. They can pretty much offer/not offer whatever they like. The agreement between ATT and Apple is just that, and they must abide by whatever is included in that agreement until it expires.

Further, you CAN watch live TV on ATT phones. We have a Sony Ericsson with a live TV program in it. It works OK, but I saw no need for it and didn't pay the 20 bucks for the program, and I *think* there's an additional $9.99/monthly charge, PLUS of course, you have to have unlimited data or it's pretty much pointless.

I'm more bewildered by the fact that so many are so hooked on TV that not being able to watch it while about town is such a big deal!

Tim in Bovey
 
This is why Cydia existed. ATT is a bad farmer for Apple. First it was Google Voice, now this. What's next? No flash allowed from Adobe? EyeTV with its orginal feature is on the jailbroken phone and jailbroker are hella happy. This is how ATT rewards its loyal customer. Get rip of useful features.

MacRumors said:


Yesterday, we noted that an easter egg had been discovered in Elgato's EyeTV iPhone application that allowed users to stream live TV to their devices over 3G wireless networks. While the workaround had been present since the application's launch late last month, it hadn't gained significant publicity until yesterday, and Apple quickly moved to pull the application from the App Store due to its agreement with AT&T not to allow television signals to be "redirected" to mobile devices.

According to the St. Paul Pioneer Press, Elgato has issued a statement claiming that the feature was related to test code that the company failed to remove from the application prior to submitting it to Apple and noting that a revised version of the application lacking the functionality has been submitted for App Store review.

Article Link: EyeTV iPhone App Pulled by Apple, Revised Version Submitted
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Not picking on you, but this is the crux of the issue and is evidence of anti trust in and of itself on the part of ATT in addition to violation of net neutrality. They effectively are filtering data ...by 100% from slingboxes. They ban competing applications like slingplayer but allow their own pecuniary interests in this tv service. This is not allowed on the wired phone network..imagine if you could not complete phone calls to businesses not affiliated with ATT....sorry you can only order pizza from ATT pizza shops, for 9.99/mo.
Its the principal of it, they are blocking applications we have paid for, that work on other phones and allow similar competing apps with similar bandwidth requirements. The whole "rights" issue should always lean towards the consumer, these issues have been covered many years ago with fair use.
I am surprised that sling inc hasn't moved forward with a suit. i would jump on a class action against ATT in heartbeat over this...unlimited data my eye!

rich

timinbovey said:
I thought the purpose of the phone was to make phone calls?
The rights issue is FAR more complex than anyone has mentioned here. 34 years working in the broadcast industry has taught me that.
It's ATT's network. They can pretty much offer/not offer whatever they like. The agreement between ATT and Apple is just that, and they must abide by whatever is included in that agreement until it expires.

Further, you CAN watch live TV on ATT phones. We have a Sony Ericsson with a live TV program in it. It works OK, but I saw no need for it and didn't pay the 20 bucks for the program, and I *think* there's an additional $9.99/monthly charge, PLUS of course, you have to have unlimited data or it's pretty much pointless.

I'm more bewildered by the fact that so many are so hooked on TV that not being able to watch it while about town is such a big deal!

Tim in Bovey
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I accidentally updated and I've lost the feature :(

I was all set to watch the football mid-week while at work and realised I had updated.. was raging!
 
I read a thread somewhere and one of the the itunes folders it stores ALL versions on your apps. I checked at the time and indeed it’s true. Then you simply delete the version you want to drop.

I’ll try and find the topic and post it here.
 
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