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Google yank tethering apps from Android Market
SlashGear —
... such as when Vodafone release the HTC Magic in Europe - and the impact their ToS may have on software.
Google’s app sweep seems to have been an unnecessarily thorough one, too, removing apps which arguably have functionality not in contravention with carrier’s ToS. One banned app allowed the Android phone to act as a bridge between a WiFi router (sharing a broadband connection, not T-Mobile’s data network) and a Bluetooth device lacking its own WiFi.
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Reports: Google Pulling Tethering Apps From Android Marketplace [Android]
Gizmodo —
Developers are reporting a mass delisting of Android tethering apps from the App Marketplace, after being informed that such apps breach the Developer Distribution Agreement. That's your cue for righteous indignation, internet! It's not yet clear if all tethering apps have been pulled from the Marketplace, but a some have—and we know why. Though the developer of Wifi Tether for Root Users—one of the apps that got pulled—doesn't reprint his entire exchange with Google, he tells us that their reasoning invokes ...
Android tethering removed from Market place
Mobility Site —
According to news published today at Android Community:
Google has reportedly pulled tethering apps from the Android Market. According to at least one developer, who contributed to the WiFi Tether for Root Users app, Google are citing their distribution agreements with carriers as the prompt for removal:
“Google enters into distribution agreements with device manufacturers and Authorized Carriers to place the Market software client application for the Market on Devices. These distribution agreements may ...
Google Banning Tethering Apps from Android Market
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis —
... regarding ToS’s for T-Mo and other carriers:
“Android phones are supposed to be released for other carriers in the future, right? Does this mean that apps in the Market have to adhere to the ToS for only T-Mobile, even when other carriers sign on? Will all apps have to adhere to the ToS for every carrier that supports Android phones?”
We’re going to hear more on this one in the days ahead for sure. What are your thoughts?
[Via: AndroidCommunity]
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Google removing tethering apps from Android Market?
MobileBurn.com —
... by the carriers. The issue here, however, is how Google plans to deal with the differing terms of use that the various carriers have, once we see more than a single carrier in a given market offering Android phones. There is also the question of why users that have legitimately purchased unlocked Android phones, which Google and HTC offer, must abide by terms of service agreements from carriers that they don't necessarily have any connection with. You can read more about the issue at Android Community . [via ...
Google Bans Tethering Apps in the Android Market: Deja Vu
jkOnTheRun —
... not like tethering, that is very clear. Many smartphones have integrated 3G and carriers rely on the charges for that bandwidth to keep them profitable. Tethering, the ability to use the phone as a modem for laptops, has long been shunned or outright banned by carriers who do not want to see that ability cut into the bottom line. Many US carriers charge an extra monthly fee for the privilege of tethering the laptop to the 3G phone while some forbid it outright. Google has reportedly notified a developer that their tethering app is a violation of the TOS of the Android Market ...
Is Google pulling tethering apps from the Android Market?
Engadget —
... According to folks over at Android Community, Google has begun to pull tethering applications from the G1's Market. One of the contributors to the "WiFi Tether for Root Users" app claims that the company is citing distribution agreements with carriers as the ...
Android tether app yanked by T-Mo
CrunchGear —
... The question raised is this: will apps have to comply with all carriers’ terms of service once Android is on AT&T, Sprint and the like? That could lead to a lot of confusion. At the moment it’s hard to say since only T-Mobile’s terms apply, but it had better get hashed out soon or developers are going to get antsy. ...
Google copiando a Apple: elimina aplicación para usar al móvil como modem 3G
Celularis —
... una copia a las acciones restrictivas de Apple que tan mal vistas han sido en el último año.
Si esperábamos que Android, con el soporte de Google y la Open Handset Alliance, fuese abierto de verdad… se nos terminó el encanto! Habrá más novedades en breve, seguro llegará la respuesta de Android, Google o de T-Mobile o veremos actuar la Pulver Order de una vez por todas en este tema o en el del Skype sin funcionar sobre 3G.
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Bad Apple: An Argument Against Buying an iPhone [Rants]
Lifehacker —
... other third-party developer, then people would use them. If not, then that's a sign that they need to make them better not a red flag that they should start pulling apps left and right from the App Store because of "duplication." Why You Should Care At the end of the day, this isn't simply a Google Voice/iPhone problem it's a concern for everyone, iPhone owner or not, with an interest in the latest and greatest crop of smartphones. Google's Android OS may be open source, but that doesn't mean they're above pulling apps when pressured by carriers. Right now the non-iPhone ...
