Hi, It think this may have the potential to get worse, for example as per ATT & the iPhone tethering - if somebody releases an app which some (exclusive) provider objects to or see's as being a competitor to some paid service they already offer then I suspect they may complain and have the Market app altered to silently prevent access to the competing app through that provider.
( or worse they could do a comcast and induce errors during downoads over their network... ) Regards On Mar 8, 8:33 am, Incognito <[email protected]> wrote: > Seems like some law makers got really good kickbacks...(?) > > On Mar 7, 2009, at 1:25 PM, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: > > LOL.... > > The BBC is funded by a license fee paid by anyone in the UK who owns a > TV set (I know it sounds crazy, many of us don't agree with it, but it's > the law here). The reason the rest of the world (including the US) can't > get streams from the BBC site is because citizens in the UK have already > paid for the content (through the license fee) whereas the rest of the > world hasn't. BBC Worldwide signs licensing deals with cable cos'., etc > to license their content which is why you can get it via other means, > and if you wanted to stream it you would need to negotiate a licensing > deal with BBC Worldwide. > > Al. > > Beth Koenig wrote: > > Very good analogy! There are other examples of things, like the BBC > streams a lot of programing but not to the US. They will not let us > see any TV on the website. I think the cable and satellite providers > (like the situation with cell phone service providers) got to them > somehow. > Beth Koenig > [email protected] > Director of Deaf Blind Services > Orange County Deaf Advocacy Center > 2960 Main Street A100 > Irvine, CA 92614http://www.deafadvocacy.org/dbs > Health, safety, and productivity are the cornerstones of independence. > At the Orange County Deaf Advocacy Center we provide the training and > services necessary for the deaf and disabled to achieve equality and > independence in all areas of life. > > On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Jon Colverson <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mar 7, 8:45 am, al74 <[email protected]> wrote: > > Limiting paid apps to geographic location or specific provider is > stupid, reduces developer potential income and limits the success of > this platform. > > I agree wholeheartedly, but Google's hands are tied by the fact that > the networks insist on taking their cut on app purchases. > > The networks have a silly amount of power over what goes into phones, > purely because they are the ones who sell them to the vast majority of > users (via bizarrely obfuscated credit agreements known as "service > plans"). Imagine if your broadband provider gave you a "free" computer > when you signed up and then crippled your access to it and took a cut > of all the things you bought online. Yuck! > > -- > Jon > > -- > > * Written an Android App? - List it athttp://andappstore.com/* > > ====== > Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the > company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, > 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. > > The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not > necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's > subsidiaries. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
