Google has been up front from the beginning about allowing carriers to limit their customer's access to certain applications.
Tmobile, however, did come out and say - in so many words - that they weren't worried about tethering. So if you have an issue, it should be with them. Note that unlike on That Other Phone, you can still install and use whatever you like, regardless of what your carrier says - including tethering apps. You just can't get it via the market. It doesn't even require root access, although in this case the app itself does. On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Howie <[email protected]> wrote: > > If the Android Market is a free market, why was a tethering > application pulled at the behest of TMobile for TMobile customers > only? Can carriers simply ask for any application to be removed from > the market? > > On Apr 9, 6:28 am, Jason Van Anden <[email protected]> wrote: > > Android is a free market. iPhone is regulated. I prefer the free > > market (for software development at least, not necessarily for > > finance). I am not sure you can balance the two. > > > > Jason Van Andenhttp://www.smileproject.com > > > > > Once Google produce an app the chances of other developers producing > > > competing apps in that area significantly drops thus stiffling > innovation > > > and variety of applications. > > > > > One thing I give Apple a lot of respect for is that they don't produce > apps > > > to compete with the developers they are trying to encourage to use > their > > > platform. > > > > > Al. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
