Google Response To Tethering App Removal Issue: “T-Mo Made Me Do It!”
“We inadvertently unpublished your application for all mobile providers; if you like, we can restore your app so that all Android Market users outside the T-Mobile US network will have access to your application.”
The response received by the blokey whose app was unceremoniously removed from the Android Market, after it allowed users to tether their T-Mobile G1 to a lappy for internet downloading and the like (provided they had root access to their G1).
You’d think it was quite a niche app, but the functionality was enough that T-Mobile US turned the screws and got it pulled. Network specific and-yet-somehow open app garden? Hmm, interesting…
It all sounds like an honest accident following that apology, but do you believe Google’s intentions are pure, or is the Android Market just as closed off to developer innovation when it apps have the potential to jeopardise the carriers’ food/money supply?
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