Comments on: SlingPlayer for iPhone rejected at AT&T’s request?

By: squint0241

squint0241 — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 08:10:20 +0000

It’s all about control of an over extended network. Apple/AT&T have sold an enormous amount of iphones in the past and previous year since its release. I wouldn’t be surprised that if they allowed the use of the slingplayer on their network with the current number of iphones out there, the network would come to a crashing halt or be so slow it would cause an uproar amongst all AT&T customers. It’s all about perception. Sure AT&T is a large network, it’s just that with their current architecture they probably cannot support the onslaught of possible bandwidth usage at this time. They are currently in the midst of a re-architecture of their network this year, and until AT&T can support a bandwidth buffet they will probably sway to be conservative and protect their credibility.

By: Common Sense

Common Sense — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:16:22 +0000

Hey AT&T,
ATM I’m eating up all your bandwidth on my Fuze using SlingPlayer. B U R N.
AT&T=Screwing iPhone users just for the fun of it.

By: ICEMAN7679

ICEMAN7679 — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:11:23 +0000

Hey if you guys want to see my personal review of Slingplayer Mobile in action on my personal iPhone 3G…then check out this youtube video link below….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-la1aWk2vM

By: DJM

DJM — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:21:17 +0000

Why is everyone responding to anonymous tips and rumor? I’m no big ATT fan, but don’t dump on them until you know if this is true or not.

By: MadMike

MadMike — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:56:14 +0000

@JAY & Michael: Your best bet is to write a snail-mail letter to the “Office of the President”

Now there are like 5 different addresses for office of the president for AT&T. However, the best one would be either:
AT&T Mobility Office Of The President
5565 Glenridge Connector, Atlanta, GA 30349
or
AT&T Mobility Office of the President
2325 N. University
Lubbock, TX 79415

Now don’t go sending De La Vega a nasty E-mail telling him he is stupid and that AT&T lacks foresight and etc…

Be polite and PROOFREAD. Be concise, no person is going to read a 100 page letter (it’s best to keep it one page).

Actually, just send a letter saying:

“I am a SlingBox user and I would like the SlingPlayer capability on my iPhone over both 3G and WiFi. Since I already own a SlingBox and I am relatively happy with my current cable solution, I am not willing to switch cable carriers or use another solution. Please allow the SlingPlayer application on the iPhone. Furthermore, I find that your 5Gb data caps on your data plans are a little restrictive, especially at the $30/month price point. Realistically, the cap should be closer to 15Gb.”

That’s it. If they get enough letters, you should be good to go.

By: Greg Gebhardt

Greg Gebhardt — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:17:00 +0000

I think AT&T refused to let it go through because their sweetheart deals with Apple is OVER!

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 11:51:40 +0000

call ATT and complain!

By: JAY

JAY — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:21:14 +0000

is there a contact email to att for customer issues i want to let them know how i feel.

By: Lloyd

Lloyd — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:12:16 +0000

Sounds like ATT might want their MobiTV app on the iPhone.

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:54:21 +0000

2nd quarter this year for the iPhone

By: Masa

Masa — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:50:10 +0000

If Apple denies SlingPlayer app, it only means they are admitting lack of their foresight, and so as the network provider who sells Apple’s 3G device, unless “Big” Apple issue a stay for the Slingmedia app until this summer…

By: Beau

Beau — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 03:49:35 +0000

Source is wrong.

Jay Tannenbaum just confirmed that this info is bogus BS and that apple and AT&T are still review the application. Jay believes it to be accepted soon.

By: Hooner

Hooner — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 03:41:23 +0000

If $ling requires me to buy a newer model Slingbox for iPhone support, I think I will buy Hava instead. Does anyone know when they plan to release MacOS and iPhone versions of their player?

By: mike

mike — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 03:35:52 +0000

“a different mike” was simply shocked about my comments on being happy with my “crippled” verizon winmo phone over the amazing iphone… well i will say that while Verizon is certainly not perfect and took a while to come around on crippling the wifi on it’s devices, I will be listening to Sirius satellite and watching my slingbox tomorrow on my gps and wifi enabled verizon smartphone and not begging att/apple for an app of actual value while getting another thousand worthless apps.

By: Drew

Drew — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 02:51:47 +0000

As per usual and not at all surprising….AT&T and Apple are full of s#!+!!!!

By: Lancer

Lancer — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 02:12:48 +0000

It makes total sense and it is not AT&T. I was at the national cable show talking with Echostar (who owns Sling). I told them I was suprised that Apple allowed Sling, and they told me that all they had was the development rights, and that they would never get the right to distribute an app. Apple wants to control premium content on their devices – I think the AT&T story is a diversion. Youtube is not premium content. Buying music, movies, and live broadcast is premium, and you will never have the ability to subscribe to this with an Apple device. I don’t use Apple because they are so controlling of the user experience (but they do have cool products).

Apple killed the Sling application because they wanted to, not AT&T. Apple is the enemy now

By: adam l.

adam l. — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 01:51:12 +0000

what area of dc do you live in cause my signal is always strong?

By: MrIphone

MrIphone — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 01:10:25 +0000

You guys are jumping the gun here.

I JUST SPOKE WITH JAY TANNENBAUM, of SlingMedia and asked him about the status. I informed him that a source had told us that the application had been denied. He said that that was incorrect and they expect it to be released very soon.

CHECK YOUR SOURCES BEFORE BASHING AND ASSUMING THE WORST.

Peace

By: VZW

VZW — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 01:02:48 +0000

Anyone happy about the LTE iPhone comming to Verizon in 2010? There really is one going to be made for Verizon, and not on CDMA but LTE. I work for Verizon (up with the big dogs in NJ).

By: Big Al

Big Al — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:30:07 +0000

Hello
I think underlying all the rumours, speculation, complaining and belly aching is this:
-both Apple and Sling have done a horrible communications job. Apple in a more general sense about it’s policies and process of reviewing and approving apps. Sling by extention of Apple’s poor communications has also done a horrible job of communication including info on the app and it’s half baked exchange program.I will assume at this point the carriers don’t have a “direct” imapact. This will be judged once the appis released.
These problems should exist in business period. The end result is pissed off potential customers.

If you look at Dataviz and it’s office program development for the iPhone-they may be slow but they have communicated progress and reported on it.

Very simple.

By: JAY

JAY — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:36:50 +0000

I AM THIS() CLOSE TO LEAVING ATT IM PISED OFF
MY FRIEND HAS A SUCKY ATT PHONE THAT GETS LIVE TV PROVIDED BY ATT AND SLING BUT ME WITH THE MOST ADVANCED PHONE ON HE NETWORK NO LUCK..

By: Your Conscience

Your Conscience — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:37:24 +0000

???

By: Roland Hupty

Roland Hupty — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:46:09 +0000

Dookie.

By: Donald

Donald — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:43:20 +0000

This is unacceptable! I just retired my classic Sling for a SlingSolo just for the iPhone app! I hope AT&T loses the right to keep the exclusive on the iPhone, once it’s over, I’m gone!

By: MadMike

MadMike — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:39:50 +0000

@jonnybruha: contracts are like toilet paper. Because that’s about all they are good for. A substantial amount of all consumer “contractual agreements” are just wishful thinking and if ever tested, they will likely fail.

With that said, NO carrier in the US (or the world for that matter) will overtly allow you to do anything you want.

Just like AT&T’s faux pas with the “no user initiated redirection of video or tv” on its terms that was removed less than a week later. Legally, they can’t tell us what we can and can’t do on their network unless it’s already illegal. For instance, they can say “No child porn.” and that’s fine, because that’s an illicit activity. They can even say “No illegal p2p file sharing activity.”

But it’s improper for them to make the rules as stringent as they are, and if they ever flex that muscle and drop accounts, if they were sued, it would NOT stand up in court.

They are overstepping their bounds in hopes that people won’t fight the issue.

Hopefully the FCC will step in soon, and exact Net Neutrality.

By: Waylo

Waylo — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:21:42 +0000

Well, while $ling has some downtime, maybe they could rebuild their application to work on legacy $ling hardware. This way, I can stop having to always type $ling with dollar sign.

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:17:48 +0000

I already dumped the slingbox for their stupid policy of not supporting older hardware. I moved to a HAVA and am waiting for their player for iphone to come out. If AT&T and Apple do this, I am done with both. This has got to be the best experience I’ve had with a device, and the absolute worse experience I’ve had in terms of network support and price from a wireless carrier. I will go back to Sprint as soon as I can. The Palm Pre is starting to look really good now.

By: jgny

jgny — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:17:02 +0000

Im not sure what the problem is with this issue if or potential customers want the slingbox for the iphone than by all means give it to them .

I already use slingplayer mobile for my windows 6.1 device and before that I had windows mobile’03 and they both work great on verizon mobile broadband. I only bought this iphone because i was told it was coming to iphone by april ‘09. This phone was purchased on 3/9/09 and slingmedia said it was “coming any day now” but, rumor has it that it was rejected by the app store!

I hope that is not true, because I love the iphone and would hate to have to give it up, but I dont need 2 phones ’cause I was giving my wife my verizon phone as soon as slingplayer was available on the iphone. TOO BAD AT&T HAS EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS TO THIS WONDERFUL PHONE. If the iphone were available on other networks, sales would go through the roof as AT&T has limited the potential of this device because their 3g network is not as capable as say verizon to handle the bandwith of the impending load if the slingbox was used.

I’d say to AT&T “If you cannot allow the implementation of apps that require larger amounts of bandwith within a reasonable portion (lets say the same as verizon)than you breach the contract as to the exclusiveness of only having iphone on AT&T, in that, these limitations may affect the ability to compete and diminish the growth potential of this product due to your unwillingness to provide service that should be considered standard in the industry.”

I also sent this to apple’s feedback page

By: jonnybruha

jonnybruha — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:09:45 +0000

^MadMike, you make me giggle. If you take a look at that contract you signed, you’ll notice that those “moronic and insipid rules” are exactly what you signed up for. Under that contract, we’re lucky AT&T lets us do anything with our devices at all!

That said, vote with your wallet. Switch to a carrier and a device that better reflects your ideals to get what you want. No matter what way you can find to manipulate AT&T’s system, if you’re sending them money, they’re still raping you.

By: MadMike

MadMike — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:58:55 +0000

If this is true, it really sours my view of AT&T. I’m very tempted to get rid of AT&T because of the recent moronic decisions they have made.

Why can’t we get unlimited data, that we can use as we wish for what we wish without someone else telling us what we can and can’t do with it.

This is a free fucking country. If I pay for it, I will do with it as I fucking damn well please. If you want to stop me, you are welcome to walk on to my property and knock on my door and attempt to FORCE me to follow your moronic and insipid rules. And I have the right to SHOOT YOU WHERE YOU STAND! Castle Doctrine, BABY!