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Tether Says Apple Pulled iTether App Over Carrier Burden
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It is all about the money, period. The carriers to not want their ability to charge for tethering to be given away. Greedy bastards.
So basically you are agreeing with me for the most part? Why then the "what"?
I don't think "we all... picked up on... the tone" you are picking up on.
I guess I just think your initial metaphor was a lot of huff-n-puff. It was not measured. Tether's response was (as you admit). I guess I'm just not getting this subliminal subtext of "Apple, we will destroy you! You will rue the day you ever pulled our app!" in Tether's statement.
Again, I'm not sure how they could've responded any more professionally than they did. People would have complained if they didn't respond. I'm just not seeing how Tether is the metaphorical Big Bad Wolf trying to blow down helpless little piggy Apple's house. Rather, it seemed like they respectfully provided their side of the story, briefly made their case, and expressed an understandable sense of disappointment.
Simply disagreeing with an Apple decision doesn't automatically make someone the Big Bad Wolf. Maybe Tether will huff-n-puff in the future, but I just didn't see it in the statement.
AT&T was probably whining about it, as it takes away their extra income.
But they are stupid and come up with that lame excuse that it causes burden on their network, and can't figure out that if tethering actually increases network traffic, their users would be using their data plan much faster, needing to either upgrade their plan or purchase more bandwidth.
2 GB is 2 GB no matter if the users tethers or not. In the past there was no "Tethering charge". AT&T was the first to come up with that brilliant idea.
But they are stupid and come up with that lame excuse that it causes burden on their network, and can't figure out that if tethering actually increases network traffic, their users would be using their data plan much faster, needing to either upgrade their plan or purchase more bandwidth.
2 GB is 2 GB no matter if the users tethers or not. In the past there was no "Tethering charge". AT&T was the first to come up with that brilliant idea.
Obviously this is a direct violation of our constitutional rights and something should be done posthaste.
Netshare has not been functional since the release of iOS4. However, HandyLight is still going strong; its just hard to remember the color combination required to bring up the easter egg tethering functionality.
will someone answer these questions!
Because you quoted yourself, less than an hour after your first post, no, no one will answer your questions.
Very well said. I agree that Tether isn't a big bad wolf here. And I'm not going to sit here and try to think of a more proper metaphor because we're beating a dead horse (also a metaphor... eh).
Point is and was meant to be that I just don't like it when anyone, forget that we're dealing with companies here, gets upset in any way for having to deal with "the rules" as they may be.
The same thing goes, and for the love of God let's not get into this topic, I'm just making a point, with politics. We all love to complain and protest, go on big fancy TV shows with swooshing graphics and sound effects, and get comfy on our soapboxes. But when election day comes, we're still at it, rather than standing in a booth, pulling a lever to try and change things.
Who in their right mind needs to stream YouTube over their phone's data plan? I've had my iPhone for about 5 months now, and have received a grand total of 355 MB over that time. You can get Wi-Fi most everywhere, so why stream against your plan? If you need a big download, plan ahead and do it from a Wi-Fi zone. It's worked great for me.
Tethering is is becominng so unneeded with all the Wi-Fi available. I'm surprised anyone even bothers with it.
What app did you use to tether? Was it iTether or another app from the Cydia Store?
if it was an app from the App Store, then AT&T shouldn't be allowed to take away your unlimited plan. Get yourself a lawyer who's willing to take the case to make the news.
The dam will eventually break. Right now tethering is a feature they can charge extra for, eventually it will be an included feature. It's just the nature of business. They want to make the money while they can. Once the first carrier uses "free tethering" as a marketing and selling point the rest will cave here in the US. Nickel and diming is just the nature of the mobile phone market. Does it stink, YES! Will it eventually change, YES!
My guess being the carriers want to charge you for 2GB but hope you use only 1GB.
Apple caving in to carriers. Scary...
Apple's reaction can only have been a result from the carriers demanding that the app be pulled.
I just moved from Europe to the US. In Europe, HotSpot was a free service, included with my regular iPhone contract. Here in the US, where carriers are even more desperate than in Europe, they charge a ridiculous amount of money for it.
This app was threatening that revenue stream.
I get nervous thinking about the concentration of power when it comes to communication networks. The pulling of this app benefits nobody but the carriers and their pocketbooks.
If Washington had any guts, it would look into these kinds of practices where a few large providers cooperate to limit the rights of the many and the small.
Apple's reaction can only have been a result from the carriers demanding that the app be pulled.
I just moved from Europe to the US. In Europe, HotSpot was a free service, included with my regular iPhone contract. Here in the US, where carriers are even more desperate than in Europe, they charge a ridiculous amount of money for it.
This app was threatening that revenue stream.
I get nervous thinking about the concentration of power when it comes to communication networks. The pulling of this app benefits nobody but the carriers and their pocketbooks.
If Washington had any guts, it would look into these kinds of practices where a few large providers cooperate to limit the rights of the many and the small.
I'd say that, statistically, what they've "always done" is just not approve apps like this. In this case they approved it and then changed their minds, thus jerking everyone around.
So, no, we're in fact getting mad at Apple for NOT doing what they've always done.
Had they rejected it 2 days ago (and thus, do what they've always done), then no one here would be commenting at all.
So your comment is completely backwards.
Especially since SMS uses otherwise-unused bandwidth in the VOICE band. (You can SMS even if you have no data connection, as long as you have a voice connection.)
By "what they've always done" I meant that they've more than clearly shown throughout their history with the App Store that they can and will pull an app they've previously allowed onto the store if they feel like it.
I'm glad it got pulled.
A lot of network congestion just for the sake of being able to cheat the system.
I would rather have a clear network.
If you don't think this would have been a problem, go to San Francisco where bandwidth has been bought to its knees and speeds suck everywhere form people abusing the system
A lot of network congestion just for the sake of being able to cheat the system.
I would rather have a clear network.
If you don't think this would have been a problem, go to San Francisco where bandwidth has been bought to its knees and speeds suck everywhere form people abusing the system
And then you'll complain about your battery life
Nope, its cold here right now. I see it as a pocket warmer...
LOL... probably... I have unlimited 3G on my iPad and it's so slow that I may never use 2GB at the current speed.
Very impressive deep reading!
Was is the line about carrier burden that tipped you off?