Notice that T-Mobile is starting to sell "mobile internet" data plans, so all the interference with the network is rather bullshit for "you are not following our idea of market segmentation, so our legal dept tries to keep suicides in the marketing dept low".
Plus I wonder if the android market will detect that you've got a 5GB data-plan only SIM card inserted or not. Basically, it's wrong because not all SIMs have the same conditions, it's easy to work around, it's a bad PR move (with the exception of pdanet and tetherbot all tether solutions rely on root access; guess a good part of that segment is capable to figure the wlan and iptables setup themselves) Andreas Mark Murphy <[email protected]> hat geschrieben: > >> If the Android Market is a free market, why was a tethering >> application pulled at the behest of TMobile for TMobile customers >> only? > >A free market does not necessarily mean a rule-free market. > >Generally speaking, the freedom of a market is a point on a continuum from >"anarchy" to "authoritarian". The Android Market is further down the path >to "anarchy" than is, say, the iPhone App Store. > >A tethering application, in the eyes of T-Mobile, "interferes with, >disrupts, damages, or accesses in an unauthorized manner the devices, >servers, networks, or other properties or services of any third party". In >this case the "third party" is T-Mobile. The quoted passage is from the >Android Market Developer Distribution Agreement: > >http://www.android.com/us/developer-distribution-agreement.html > >> Can carriers simply ask for any application to be removed from >> the market? > >They can ask, and the burden of proof should be on them that such an >application violates the above terms. If, for example, T-Mobile felt that >farting applications were uncouth, they could ask Google to get rid of >them from the Market. Unless farting applications are demonstrated to >violate the above terms, I sincerely hope Google will tell T-Mobile to go >pound sand. Only time will tell. > >-- >Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) >http://commonsware.com >_The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development_ Version 2.0 Available! > > > > -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9. Please excuse my brevity. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
