Comments on: Joost gets back on our radar with iPhone app

The online video start-up has just launched a streaming video app for the iPhone.

[danrice]

Joost's support for 3G or Edge has nothing to do with their application. It is a restriction by AT&T. AT&T advertises Unlimited data with their iPhone data plan however it restricts any application that tries to stream data to the phone other than YouTube and it also restricts applications that are over 10MB in size from being downloaded. AT&T needs to remove the restrictions and allow streaming over it's network.

[mrcjacobs]

Saying that AT&T restricts any application, except YouTube, that streams data to the iPhone isn't totally correct. I currently have Truveo, AOL Radio, Pandora, Simplify and FStream on my iPhone which I have used to stream video and audio to my phone well in excess of 10MB and have yet to have my service throttled or cancelled. Joost could have easily added the ability to stream over 3G and Edge had they chosen to!

[fighter_of_C]

This App needs ALOT of work. It would be a great alternative to YouTube, but for now Joost crashes over and over. (Yes I have rebooted my iPhone after the install.)

[Penguinisto]

So IOW, Joost needs to shell out AT&T's massive licensing fees in order to stream over 3G or EDGE.

[eltaco420]

SLINGBOX!!!!!!!

Lose Joost, Get Orb. Streams Movies, Music Vids, Pictures and Music off your computer thats sitting at home, does it over WiFi, 3G or edge, and if you have a TV card, you guessed it, will stream live TV from your computer to your iPhone. www.orb.com to get the software for your puter at home and then the app store to get Orb Live.
This is what the iPhone was meant to be!!

[reddawnz]

AT&T Blows with their WiFi requirement. They won't even let you download a song from itunes without WiFi. I can see how my 4-7MB song would choke their unlimited data service.

[Cromartie]

I tried the Joost iPhone app & it worked very well. Would like to see it break the WI-FI umbilical cord though.

[brickman5721]

For the information of everyone here, Joost is a peer-to-peer application. If they maintained the app's p2p nature in the iPhone version, it's no wonder AT&T didn't want them on their network. That would place a ridiculous load on both downstream and upstream bandwidth. Please try to understand why something is the way it is before commenting on how dumb it is for being that way.

[stevesmith121]

you can use the voipover3g app from cydia to trick any program into thinking that its on a wifi network. just know that at&t will notice if your data usage is over a few gigs.

[stevesmith121]

edit

at&t "unlimited" plan is limited to 5GB/month

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