Stephen Withers
Wednesday, 21 October 2009 05:00
Opinion and Analysis
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Elgato's iPhone app for streaming TV from a Mac was bounced from the App Store to suit AT&T. But what about the rest of the world? At least the new version fixes some bugs.
Over the weekend,
Elgato's EyeTV for iPhone app was pulled from the App Store. Then it reappeared. Now there's a new version.
On Sunday October 18, Apple removed the Elgato EyeTV app from the App Store. The app worked with EyeTV 3.2 to stream recordings made on a Mac to an iPhone or iPod touch.
This worked over Wi-Fi connections and - with recent iPhones - across the 3G network. Live TV could also be streamed, but only via Wi-Fi. Well, that was the theory, but users discovered that this feature also worked over 3G.
A statement issued by Elgato on Sunday read in part "Some test code that enabled live TV streaming over the cellular network was accidentally left in the the EyeTV App. Apple requested that we remove the code since their agreement with AT&T does not allow redirecting TV signals over the cellular network."
OK, but that's only AT&T - what about the millions of iPhone owners around the world that use different carrier? In particular, you'd have thought carriers that charge according to the amount of data received during a month would have been rubbing their hands together with glee when they heard about the EyeTV app.
Tough luck - it seems that Apple believes that what's good for AT&T is good for the rest of the world.
What's changed in version 1.0.1? See
page 2.
