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i am writng this post with my jailbroken iphone - runs the Google app no problemo...
Could turn into a “common carrier” issue: if AT&T is supposed to carry ANY phone conversation without regard to content, and “content” now includes data from user-chosen applications, does AT&T have any right to decide which applications may use their network? and does that right extrapolate to their partner who makes the hardware and tightly regulates the application market?
I’m thinking a creative lawyer should be able to smack down App Store restrictions: the only suppressed apps should be ones that demonstrably & technically harm the network. So long as Apple & AT&T have such a tight relationship (as to allow the latter to dictate app acceptance parameters to the former), ipso facto AT&T has no right to tell Apple to refuse apps (say, Google Voice), and so long as Apple rides the “common carrier” bandwagon they have no business limiting apps discernible only by nuanced content (vs. abusive network behavior).
The iPhone being shackled to AT&T is the main reason I don’t have one.
I was with AT&T a few years ago and got fed up with the spotty coverage in the areas I lived and traveled.
I have never read a good explanation of Apple’s partnership with AT&T. I find it hard to understand Apple’s limiting their market share in this way.
Get a life!!
The iPhone is useless for texting. The virtual keyboard is impossible to use, so error prone. Perhaps a chick with small fingers can master it.
Heck I missed out on the soft porn. Learn something new everyday. LOL.
The gubmint overreaching, again. With the LibTards, it’s never really about making things ‘right’. It’s ALWAYS about CONTROL.
It’s time to take back the country.
This is more what the FCC needs to be looking at - what exactly is Google doing with all that info, digital recordings of phone calls/messages, and calling patterns? You can bet that somewhere buried in their user agreement and privacy policy that they have the right to use that data pretty much any way they see fit to make a profit. Google erases nothing. That is part of their openly stated purpose. Every bit and byte that goes through their servers becomes their property and they use it in a mighty way to make tons of $$$. How else could they provide so many "cheap" or the more obvious "free" services?
Google worries me.
iPhone? I finally bought one back in the spring. I love it, but was living just fine without it - and only bought when the deal was right for me. No-one is force to buy an iPhone. And I honestly don't believe that anyone "needs" an iPhone. It is a luxury item.
It is kind of sad the number of FReepers who are wrongly in favor of “Net Neutrality” on the basis that network operators “might” exercise more control over the traffic on their networks using context specific filtering.
Personally I wouldn’t worry about private ISP censorship of political dissidents until the politicians try to use legislation to block “offensive” content that everybody agrees is offensive, like child porn. Give the government preemptive powers to install contextual censorship capabilities on private networks and before long we’ll have legislators itching to expand those powers. Private network operators understand that delving into the gray area of contextual filtering without end user permission is bad for business. Government, naturally, understands no such thing, as government has never successfully operated a business without cheating (by outlawing the competition).