iPhone Video Apps Should be Good Netizens. But, Apple Really Needs to End the AT&T Monopoly

When I think of AT&T’s 3G network, I sometimes imagine its network control centers looking like something out of steampunk anime, giant valves and pipes everywhere, steam spurting from random points, and network engineers screaming at the top of their lungs trying to work together to somehow keep 3G data moving through ancient creaking sputtering pipes. This may not be too far from the truth based on this news from TechCrunch:

Some iPhone Video Apps Won’t Be Approved Unless They Can Adapt To AT&T’s Lousy Network

To be fair, any network manager would like to data heavy software to be good netizens and adjust their behavior based on network traffic and constraints.

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