Re: NEWS: As Devices Pull More Data, Patience May Be Required

John Navas <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
news:(E-Mail Removed):

> It's only going to get worse as streaming video
> gets more prevalent.

As long as the 5GB/month LIMITED service is delivered to aircards and
tethered devices, the point is moot.

"unlimited" service, lower case intended, is only offered to devices
that lack the capabilities to download massive data storms and have no
way of offloading that data to other systems, play the vast majority of
the internet's streaming stations because they lack the licensed
technology such as Adobe Flash, DivX, XviD, Windows Media, Real Video
and Audio, to do so, relieving the carriers from having to provide
streaming services from the vast majority of the web. Adobe, by the
way, is about to release a web-based iPhone product Steve Jobs has yet
to block, so non-Flash devices like his will be able to play Adobe's
server customers' Flash content through an Adobe proxy. There was news
of that across the geekdom just today when reporters were asking Adobe
about the lack of Flash support for Apple's sellphone products. Adobe
has tried very hard to get Flash player on these devices to no avail.
I'm sure ATTWS is firmly against Flash support as the Adobe Flash
product head said something like 75% of video streaming content on the
net is FLASH based.

You can count the H.264 TV stations on a single sheet of paper....no
threat to ATTWS' bandwidth problem at all.

Note the SD card dongle is for READING camera data ONLY and does not
write, removing the threat that some smartass maxiPad owner downloads
Avatar from some website, storing it off the maxiPad so he can play it
on his mac over ATTWS' "unlimited" data usage $30 account.

This pig is all hobbled up just like iPhone....to LIMIT bandwidth on
ATTWS.

No programming, no root access, no loading your own programs off the SD
card dongle, etc., etc......

Another Apple Box Office Device the consumer is expected to pay for.
App sales
Content sales
Book sales
Music sales
all controlled by the CLOUD.

In article <Xns9D0EEEEA7ED81noonehomecom@74.209.131.13>, Larry
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Note the SD card dongle is for READING camera data ONLY and does not
> write, removing the threat that some smartass maxiPad owner downloads
> Avatar from some website, storing it off the maxiPad so he can play it
> on his mac over ATTWS' "unlimited" data usage $30 account.

when did you try one? oh right, you didn't, you're just spewing again.

> No programming,

what's the sdk for then? how did the 140,000 apps get written?

> no root access,

what do you need to do that requires root?

> no loading your own programs off the SD
> card dongle, etc., etc......

there's plenty of storage in the device itself and additional apps can
be downloaded at any time. no need for cards.

Larry wrote:

> As long as the 5GB/month LIMITED service is delivered to aircards and
> tethered devices, the point is moot.
>
> "unlimited" service, lower case intended, is only offered to devices
> that lack the capabilities to download massive data storms and have no
> way of offloading that data to other systems, play the vast majority of
> the internet's streaming stations because they lack the licensed
> technology such as Adobe Flash, DivX,

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You can currently use a jailbroken iPhone as a wireless router and
tether whatever you want to the 3G network. I'm sure that AT&T has
insisted that Apple make this impossible on the iPad as a condition of
the $30 unlimited 3G service.