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ATT wants app makers to pay

It looks like it would be an option for app makers not a requirement. Kinda like if you have an app with a 1GB additional DL you can opt to pay for it instead of the customer, why someone would is beyond me other than to perhaps raise the price of the app. I didn't take it as something that would be a requirement or else they would be completely overstepping their bounds IMO.
 
dan330 said:
HAHAAHah.. LOL...

i will re-frame from making a comment... because I the mod gods would not like it.
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Building a house? Or remodeling? :p


From everything I've read I never thought of it as something that was an option. You make a very good point Yeahha, I took it as them completely over stepping their bounds. (which coming from AT&T, sounds exactly how they intended.)
 
Well if they make it an option available to the devs but just that an option I see no problem with it now if they decide that oh well you caused us to use x amount of data you owe us $Y pay up then I don't see how they can do that. The devs pay for hosting to make additional content available and can't control what network someone who buys their apps are using. What I am curious about is if I am an AT&T customer and buy an app that is 20MB and the dev pays for the download does it go towards my allowance? If it does isn't AT&T effectively charging for the same data twice?
 
Zub, you are on the ball with the latest news from ATT. I was just reading that this morning after browsing google and was about to post that link! i wonder how this would be accepted by devs? wold they 'boycot' or opt not to sell or release apps to ATT ?

If this was back when the iphone was just release (2007'ish) you gotta ask yourselves "W W J D "? "What Would JOBS Do" if he was releasing his iphone on a network that charges developers to have their apps on ATT
Ma Bell sez....
"You Charge them App Developers!...
CAWSE I say so!...."
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Rico ANDROID said:
Zub, you are on the ball with the latest news from ATT. I was just reading that this morning after browsing google and was about to post that link! i wonder how this would be accepted by devs? wold they 'boycot' or opt not to sell or release apps to ATT ?

If this was back when the iphone was just release (2007'ish) you gotta ask yourselves "W W J D "? "What Would JOBS Do" if he was releasing his iphone on a network that charges developers to have their apps on ATT
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This isn't the story I saw yesterday, but the gist is the same.
Things apparently different in the EU:

iPhone subsidies hurting phone carriers - UPI.com

Somebody has to pay for all that - now it's both customers and devs.
 
zuben el genub said:
This isn't the story I saw yesterday, but the gist is the same.
Things apparently different in the EU:

iPhone subsidies hurting phone carriers - UPI.com

Somebody has to pay for all that - now it's both customers and devs.
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Yup, the iphone sure did revolutionize the cellular industry.....the lost revenue will get recooped one way or another. My bet is it gets added to other recoop $$$ passed on to cunsumers. what iwont like is non-iphone customers getting rolled up into this facet of $$ reclaimed. (my seculation only)
 
sometimes you throw shiiit on the way.. and it sticks... this aint one of those times.

so.. a dev puts his app on android market...
and he hopes that users will get it and enjoy having it.. the more the better..
he has no control of who, where, or what carrier the client has...
if it happens to be in USA and on ATT... he will get a bill for the data used by that client??????????


PLOP... thats the sound of the piece of shiiit hitting the floor...
 
Traditionally the party downloading the content would pay for that bandwidth and the party streaming will pay for the upload/hosting I can't see how this brilliant idea is close to legal or enforceable. If they do manage to make this work I can see it either driving up app prices or causing devs to not offer apps on AT&T. What's next trying to bill website owners for the data used to visit their website?
 
I cant see what ATT think they can gain from this. They think they are the "trend setters" in the industry but , rather, beginning to really show some true colors and will loose lots of customers and manufacturers with these "reach out and touch someone" ideas.
 
Rico ANDROID said:
I cant see what ATT think they can gain from this. They think they are the "trend setters" in the industry but , rather, beginning to really show some true colors and will loose lots of customers and manufacturers with these "reach out and touch someone" ideas.
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Getting paid twice for the same data seems like a perk.
 
Yeahha said:
What's next trying to bill website owners for the data used to visit their website?
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I like this idea..... The great mod/guide layoff of 2012...
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YES I KNOW MODS AND GUIDES DON'T GET PAID....SARCASM MAN SARCASM!!!


 
LOL, couldnt highack it no more than how ATT is highjacking its customers... and now, app developers... i wonder if the same apply to iphone apps?
 
The new Ipad is rumored to have 4G. Now everyone will be paying for its subsidy.

Verizon has more coverage and is probably ahead in LTE. I found out that V actually has large trucks with portable cell tower like structures for emergencies. They were in use here during fire season. Doing this makes V seem more civic minded. That's close to 2 strikes on ATT in publicity. They had the Iphone first, but V seems to be handling it better. V is a PITA in its own way. So is every phone company.

(I buy my own phones. I'd accept Edge deferred for a discount. I usually use wifi. TMO has wifi calling.)
 
Wi-fi calling isnot a bad idea. Sort of glad the att deal.didnt go thru else im sure that perk would have been marked for fading out.

Att suposedly has these emergency trucks but never hear of them in public. Instead they still try and push the microcell
 
I really like the idea of wifi calling but can the carrier use the mins you use to wifi call against your allotment?
 
zuben el genub said:
Here's another take:
AT&T's Dual-Sided Pipe is Bad for Developers
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The Wall Street Journal didn't really say much on the AT&T dev data plan and this article is simply speculation.

I really don't see devs opting in to something like this.

There's way too many unanswered questions of how the implementation will be (AT&T didn't really comment on that) and the implication of this all (we don't know the implementation)

zuben el genub said:
iPhone subsidies hurting phone carriers - UPI.com
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We all know that any phones we get from the carrier at a subsidized price is a lost for them. It's interesting that the price went from $400 to $600 for the carriers. I really would like someone to publish how much carriers have to pay for Samsung's, HTC's or Motorola's phones.
 
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