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Court bans VoIP app on iPhone (tmcnet.com)
19 points by raju on Sept 11, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 8 comments



So now that this is banned, people wanting to download it will have to do so from an FTP server in the US instead of in Germany?

What a waste of the court's time.


The iPhone SDK agreement forbids the development of VOIP applications.


This is for jailbroken iPhones. The SDK is irrelevant.


No, it doesn't. In fact there is one available free from the App store.

You may not route VOIP over 3G, but it is fine over WiFi.


This is just corporate politics, why would they let you make phone calls for free, when you could be using your minutes. This is a business trying to protect its revenue. There really nothing they can do to stop you from using it, except on there network, if your connecting to a wi-fi access point there's nothing in your way accept the protocols of the access point. Once wi-max is in full swing things will get a lot trickier...

Just wait in see.


Just wait in see.

But what if I can't swim?


This is complete bullshit.


Why are we using landlines, and not cellular?

Wherever there is infrastructure and someone making money out of it, new technologies will be slow to adopt.

VoIP is much better and cheaper, unfortunately its going to take awhile before we can really start enjoying it.




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