AT&T responds on Google questions, throws Apple under the bus

All I can say is HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Maybe now we will get some consistency on iTunes approvals and maybe Apple will dump ATT :D

guys, stop feeding the troll. any one with any mind knows '.com' means US, a-duh. that's the end of the argument.

Firstly Sling is allowed, only on Wi-Fi.
Secondly, Apple seems to be the company in danger not AT&T with a google voice app

This may sound like conspiracy theory, but I wonder if MLB had any say in the Slingbox shutdown? Surely the TV portion of the MLB AtBat app was a known quantity during the vetting process of the Slingbox app, and surely many are aware of MLB's attempts to shut down Slingbox in the past (http://news.cnet.com/MLB-aims-brushback-pitch-at-Slingbox/2100-1030_3-6187915.html). Remember, Slingbox was conceived of by a couple of frequent-flyer San Francisco Giants fans - it's very reason for being is rooted in baseball. I just feel that MLB finally won a battle here, keeping us from streaming our own baseball games to our iPhones via Slingbox, ensuring we pay for AtBat (and MLB.TV) in the process.

But this is all about the United States, where AT&T does hold considerable sway... which then affects the rest of the world.

I can't understand how you guys think this is AT&T's fault. The slingbox app.. the google voice app.. they're both on blackberrys on AT&T.

I have run many apps on the blackberry on AT&T's network. Never gotten a single complaint or call . The gatekeeper to creating Apple applications is.. well.. APPLE.

I think it would be obvious. AT&T has other phones out there that do this. They have no problem with them. Other carriers also have no problem with apps like this.

So suddenly, JUST for the iphone, JUST for Apple, they start nailing projects?

That means one of two things. One, IPhone apps are inefficient users of bandwidth, or two, Apple is really the one doing the axing here.

So what about how Skype works perfectly over T-Mobile in Germany on the iPhone? The app store is still controlled by Apple, T-Mobile at first did bloack and said they were blocking it but decided not to. T-Mobile made the call.

I can has Verizon iPhone?

@armchair : "As for Google Voice, it's too peripheral and ersatz an application to attract all this silly fuss".

As someone who knows people outside the US, the google voice app would be huge.

International plans are way over-priced on all the cell carriers. Google voice let's me make my international calls for super cheap. It is true, that i still can use it, but it would be nice to just have the app.

I can't tell whether it is Apple or ATT that are being the freaks here, but i'm pretty unimpressed and it is pushing me to jailbreak my phone.

@airmanchairman

You must be high. Visionary? The first to cede control? You act as though Apple was the first company to produce a handset capable of browsing the web.

AT&T haven't ceded a damn thing that they hadn't already done with countless Palm and WindowsMobile (or CE for that matter) devices.

For whatever reason Apple is making what seem to be questionable choices in regards to what they will allow to be installed on the iPhone. People want to jump onto AT&T because they admitted to being a party to limiting the Slingbox software. Apple needs to come clean with that application as much as the do with the Google and other VOIP applications.