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

[Geoffrey]

Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> 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.

So, I'm curious, if the do not allow it, how do you do it?  It's my 
understanding that the iPhone has it disabled, thus it's not possible to 
tether (without a hack).

> 
> 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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Until later, Geoffrey

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