I was the person who received that message from Palm. They have been extremely friendly to the hacking scene thus so far. Gizmodo has blown it out of proportion. WebOS updates are only required because Palm doesn't want the maintain old infrastructure necessary to keep old versions of the OS running. Tethering directly breaks the AUP/ToS, and Sprint obviously doesn't want that. Palm has to keep Sprint happy.
Sounds exactly like when Apple pulled Nullriver's 'Netshare' iPhone tethering app. And I saw a lot of people hammering Apple as evil. Again, I can only blame the carrier partners. These companies are "tethered" in partnerships and this is (unfortunately) expected. I will say, at least Nullriver was able to sell their iPhone app for about a week. Looks like Palm isn't going to be able to sneak one out for a week under Sprint's watch!
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I was the person who received that message from Palm. They have been extremely friendly to the hacking scene thus so far. Gizmodo has blown it out of proportion. WebOS updates are only required because Palm doesn't want the maintain old infrastructure necessary to keep old versions of the OS running. Tethering directly breaks the AUP/ToS, and Sprint obviously doesn't want that. Palm has to keep Sprint happy.
Can this get a bump to the top, PLEASE?
"Gizmodo [substitute 'Engadget' if needed] has blown it out of proportion."
I wonder why?
Sounds exactly like when Apple pulled Nullriver's 'Netshare' iPhone tethering app. And I saw a lot of people hammering Apple as evil. Again, I can only blame the carrier partners. These companies are "tethered" in partnerships and this is (unfortunately) expected. I will say, at least Nullriver was able to sell their iPhone app for about a week. Looks like Palm isn't going to be able to sneak one out for a week under Sprint's watch!