So, Orb works in 3G, Sling not so much. That seems fair. $30, that seems fair for a crippled product. So exactly how will I license my old WM version to iPhone? So many questions so few desires.

Joe in Los Angeles

GREAT !!!!!

I think that while the lack of 3G/Edge support sucks, it doesn't surprise me. Many people never expected the app to have it.

The important thing to notice is that the older boxes will now work with the software!

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Yeah, no sale Sling Media sorry, you totally wimped out for your loyal customers here. Not even a sham attempt to bust the door open in a legal arena.

I hope a class action suit starts since ATT is baring only iphone users while Blackberry and Smartphone users continue Slinging all they want.

Very disgusted with ATT.

Beyond that, I have a friend at ATT who is a 3rd level network admin and he says the Blackberry / Smartphone Slingbox usage is a complete non-issue since its quite rare that even three users are Slinging at the same time coming from the same originating node.

This is pure FUD. ATT used FEAR, UNCERTAINTY, and DOUBT to win this. There is no proof because they never tried.

It's interesting that in the last few days we've seen articles in major mainstream press about the problem of iPhone users being primarily responsible for the lion's share of AT&T's 3G traffic. I'm not one for conspiracies theories, but I hate coincidences like this. Maybe the earlier news was to try to let us down easy. One thing for sure is that Apple has been mandating that AT&T do network upgrades pending new product announcements in June. Maybe once that's done, we might get 3G again. But I'd love to hear a formal explanation of why that iPhone users can't get a critical feature that every other Sling Mobile platform has gotten for years.

Time for all iphone customers to email and call AT&T on a daily basis until they allow this over 3G!!!!!!!

Sevenfeet said: It's interesting that in the last few days we've seen articles in major mainstream press about the problem of iPhone users being primarily responsible for the lion's share of AT&T's 3G traffic. I'm not one for conspiracies theories, but I hate coincidences like this. Maybe the earlier news was to try to let us down easy. One thing for sure is that Apple has been mandating that AT&T do network upgrades pending new product announcements in June. Maybe once that's done, we might get 3G again. But I'd love to hear a formal explanation of why that iPhone users can't get a critical feature that every other Sling Mobile platform has gotten for years.

BOYCOTT iPhone Slingplayer, $30? Crippled software should be priced that way. $9.99 #iphone_slingplayer_boycott

Above is my lame attempt on Twitter to start a revolt. I'm not real happy with Sling/AT&T/Apple in this particular order. All parties have a little culpability in how this has been handled from the start.

They show off a demo at CES, I play/see it there (I was there at their booth taking to them about this), I think get baited for the "Upgrade".. I wait a month, then I hear that the old boxes will work, ehhh, sorry about that.. And now it won't work where I will actually use it -- out of my house/office.

I would probably buy the WIFI-only version for $9.99, but it's not worth $30 to me.. I am already jailbroken and will wait to see what happens on that front.

I wanted to pay for this, crazy me.. But not like this and for this amount.

$30? I didn't know it was going to be that high.
Not sure I'm buying it now.

$ling Media has mishandled this situation from the start.

I now could care less whether this application will work with my $lingbox Classic -- I've already unplugged the thing and wrapped it up for garbage recycling day here in Japan.

So long $ling, hello Hava!