Now I normally don’t like to post stuff as assumed fact when there is some room for change. However this needs to be known. According to a BG tipster, Sling Player for iPhone was denied today and sent back to the land of apps that almost were…*supposedly*. Sling PR has been contacted so far hasn’t responded. So for now we will speculate. And don’t jump down Apple’s throats too fast. While they have been the center of some pretty stupid rejection problems before, this time it wasn’t them. How do we know? Sling met every requirement Apple has so far set forth. It appears that if this is in fact true, AT&T stepped in and requested it be denied due to worries of excessive bandwidth usage. (Really AT&T, this is getting old, upgrade your POS network so the users can actually use what we pay for!!!!) BG points out a very good point stating that any other devices have been using Sling Player on AT&T just fine for a while now (such as Blackberry). I can see the difference though. Apple is in AT&T’s pocket. When you get the Sling Player app for other devices there isn’t a centralized app store (Blackberry now excluded), so people can freely go find Sling Player and install it at their own will whereas Apple has to directly answer to AT&T. That’s ok…another reason to Jailbreak! Once I know for sure I will update.
Source: Boy Genius
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