Why don't AT&T and Apple work together to reduce traffic on AT&T's network? Okay, so they do. But why don't they do something like this:
- Your friend wants an App or Song/Music Video/TV Show, etc. that you have
- You find it and send it to him
- Your friend gets prompted to accept normal charges for the cost of whatever it is
- BUT the app/song, etc., is transferred from one device to the other, rather than over the network.
OR
We make iPhone security rock solid, and your iPhone finds devices around you with the product you want (over bluetooth or PTP wifi connection, etc.), and, in the background (now that we're all friendly living back there), the nearby iPhone transfers the product to your phone after the same transaction prompt. Then anyone is a potential "donor" (well, practically everyone is around someone with an iphone).
Either way, only the minimal transaction data is sent over the AT&T network.
Walk too far away from your random "donor" or friend? Okay, so the remainder of the product downloads over the network.
What do you think? Why isn't this being done. Sounds easy enough to implement....
It's finding solutions like this that I feel no one out there is really working on.......
- Your friend wants an App or Song/Music Video/TV Show, etc. that you have
- You find it and send it to him
- Your friend gets prompted to accept normal charges for the cost of whatever it is
- BUT the app/song, etc., is transferred from one device to the other, rather than over the network.
OR
We make iPhone security rock solid, and your iPhone finds devices around you with the product you want (over bluetooth or PTP wifi connection, etc.), and, in the background (now that we're all friendly living back there), the nearby iPhone transfers the product to your phone after the same transaction prompt. Then anyone is a potential "donor" (well, practically everyone is around someone with an iphone).
Either way, only the minimal transaction data is sent over the AT&T network.
Walk too far away from your random "donor" or friend? Okay, so the remainder of the product downloads over the network.
What do you think? Why isn't this being done. Sounds easy enough to implement....
It's finding solutions like this that I feel no one out there is really working on.......