pippin;441636 Wrote: > That's not true. You will be. There's plenty of similar apps for > streaming, the only disclaimer on Apple's side is on bandwidth > limitation for cellular application.
After posting I realized I should have added the adverb "well" -- as in it seems unlikely that you'll be able to stream music well to an iPhone. Do those apps play music in the background? As far as I've read, the iPhone/iPod Touch SDK still does not allow third-parties to write background apps, and that means the *best* you can hope for is the ability to listen to SqueezeCenter music while doing nothing else with the phone (as you suggested in March -- http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=407686&postcount=857). That would be truly lame, and neither Microsoft nor Google place such restrictions on their smartphone platforms. As for the fact that there are some iPhone streaming apps now, that doesn't change the fact that Apple can, and does, deny developers the right to publish apps to the iPhone App Store when Apple deems them to compete/overlap too much with Apple's own software. And the iPhones include remote kill switch software that lets Apple shut down software that's already been downloaded from the App Store. Apple could ban iPeng and remotely disable it on all iPhones tomorrow if they wanted to. Maybe Apple allows things like the Pandora app because they share Michael Robertson's belief that Pandora poses no threat to them, that Pandora is destined to be killed off by their SoundExchange royalty obligations (http://michaelrobertson.com/). -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver ContextMenu FuzzyTime KidsPlay KitchenTimer PlayLog PowerCenter/BottleRocket SaverSwitcher SettingsManager SleepFade StatusFirst SyncOptions VolumeLock ------------------------------------------------------------------------ peterw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2107 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=64944 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
