But there are hundreds (?) of carriers worldwide, all of which support the iPhone. AT&T is just one of many.
So I don't see what the AT&T TOS has to do with Apple's App Store. Five years ago, sure, but not now.
So I don't see what the AT&T TOS has to do with Apple's App Store. Five years ago, sure, but not now.
We could (unproductively) relitigate whether Apple should police submissions to the app store at all, but as long as they do, they're obviously going to reject applications that violate the terms of the vast overwhelming majority of their US users carrier contracts.
Transparent false dichotomy. This has nothing to do with curating versus anarchy. It is the standard of a subset of carriers in one country dictating policy for all Apple devices worldwide. Wasn't Apple the one who saved people from carrier influence and control?
On the carriers which do not have a TOS forbidding free usage of the data plan for tethering, iOS's built-in tethering is already enabled, and this app violates the rule forbidding apps from duplicating built-in iOS functionality.
All of these carriers can enable the built-in access point feature of iOS. In fact, it's enabled by default so all of these carriers can not disable the built-in AP feature of iOS.
> So I don't see what the AT&T TOS has to do with Apple's App Store. Five years ago, sure, but not now.
The TOS in question have to do with tethering/cell-as-modem, not with the appstore, I'd guess.