apple is already afraid of google.

um you need to get off the net AND slingbox AND the martinis AND the cartoon network and maybe your stress level can go down and you can interpret posts better

Yes, I know, this is really important

@icebike The main reason I got a slingbox was to watch those sporting events that I would miss otherwise. My schedule and lifestyle require me to travel a lot, and I am a huge New England sports fan and I was tired of missing so many Bruins games. So I forked over the money, and now I can watch all my sports and shows wherever I am, but it would be so much easier if I didn’t have to jailbreak my phone in order to do that. If you aren’t a big sports fan, you’re right. I can’t see the point of buying a slingbox, unless you wanted to show it off so bad.

um…that was a scary amount of personal information.

http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/10/06/skype-comments-att-policy-change-allowing-voip-3g-network/

Mac world: http://preview.tinyurl.com/ydn8rzm The new york times: (Job’s bible): http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/07/technology/companies/07phone.html

@xultar: You need to get off the net and learn to understand other points of view. Seriously: martini AND cartoons? You need help.

I have a sling, I travel, and I tell you being in the airport @ a bar only showing stupid crap during a 2 hr delay is not fun aka ESPN and Fox News. So, I whip out the iPhone, netbook, or lappy, order up a martini and watch my TiVo or whatever I want to pass the time.

Also, the hotels I’m staying in suck @ t.v. they don’t get the cartoon network! At night, while I’m winding down, with a martini I watch some Cartoon network, some Syfy, maybe some Investigation Discovery (Dr. G.) and I hit the sheets with the desk clerk with the tight ass. I don’t know his name but I don’t need to know. He looks like Vin Diesel so I don’t give a rats.

You OBVIOUSLY never been out shopping with a wife or significant other during a major sporting event.

Ah, there’s your problem. Wrong wife.

My wife is a bigger sports fan than I am. She wouldn’t miss the event any more than I would. She will come bursting in the door any minute now, because the Play-In game between Twins/Tigers is due up in 15 minutes. We’re particularly fans of either team, just fans of Baseball.

You OBVIOUSLY never been out shopping with a wife or significant other during a major sporting event. I know having the sling I can watch my Baseball games or NFL games when I am not home. If your not a sports fan, then you wouldn’t understand.

I agree and I think that if they thought about it and implemented such a solution, it would solve a lot of problems with reliability.

I agree that Skype does not use a great deal of bandwidth. In fact, it probably uses less bandwidth than a regular cell call.

Call setup over skype/voip is someone else’s problem. ATT hands the packets off to the net right at the tower, and its not their problem any more.

Voice calls are their problem. If I were them I would be charging for a base number of minutes and a dataplan and actively pushing the rest to the net as fast as I could.

After all, that is what LTE is all about anyway.

Is it that you really can’t be without your TV for your brief forays out of your basement into the light of day?

I don’t get it. There is so little worth watching on TV that having it everywhere you go seems hardly worth the effort.

It might be because Verizion’s announced big push into Android phones.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/mobility/business/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=220301298

Perhaps ATT is seeing that holding back the iPhones true potential is going to hurt them in the long run.

Maybe its Apple’s price for extending the contract?

And maybe its wishful thinking, and rampant speculation, but its a fun rumor none the less.

Why T-Mobile? They already sell the phone through them in other countries.