[ale] OT: Apple developer agreement makes Microsoft look modest

[Michael B. Trausch]

On 03/09/2010 08:56 AM, Geoffrey wrote:
> Last I checked, you can't tether a computer to an iPhone either even
> though the support is there.  It's not Apple, but AT&T who won't support
> it, because, as I understand it, they don't think their network would
> support the volume.

This is a fairly common occurrence.  T-Mobile also disallows PC 
tethering to a phone.  This does not stop me from doing so when I 
absolutely must for one reason or another; I just try to keep my usage 
low and do it as little as possible.

Then again, with today's phones being handheld Linux boxes, it doesn't 
take much to start transferring a lot of data over it.  Erica hit the 10 
GiB soft-cap last month, by streaming Internet radio for something like 
12 hours a day every day and not tethering at all.  And that's not even 
with 128Kbps stations all the time; one of them is 64Kbps, if memory serves.

I've had occasion to tether my phone to my laptop probably once or twice 
a month, and I have yet to hit 400 MiB of transfer on my phone's data 
plan for any given month.  :-)

	--- Mike

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