Update on the mobile SlingPlayer
by Volker Weber
I asked Slingmedia for an explanation on the licensing of the mobile SlingPlayer. It turned out to be pretty simple:
- For the iPhone player, you need an iPhone 3G to be able to watch TV over the mobile network. Since the Appstore does not provide for trial versions, you have to buy the full version right away. You have to trust me on that: it works, and it works brilliantly. Users can use the SlingPlayer for iPhone client on up to 5 devices connected to their one iTunes account.
- For all other devices, you can download from Sling Media and try it out for 30 days. If you like it, you buy a key and enter it into your device. If you swap the device, you put the key into the new device and it will work, but deactivate the old one. The key you purchase from Sling Media is transferable between all clients, except the iPhone
Sounds fair to me.
Comments
Why do so many vendors insist that the AppStore does not support trial versions? Sure, there's no built-in mechanism but you're always free to build a demo version of your app and give it away for free.
Just limit it to 10 minutes usage in case of the SlingPlayer for example. Would like to see TomTom and Navigon to follow such an example as well.
You can trust Volker:
- the iPhone player works fine except that it does not work over 3G/EDGE (I guess thank you T-Mobile) I tried to connect using a PPTP VPN - unfortunately no luck there...
- the Slingbox itself --- absolutely boring installation!!!!! ;-) I have never seen such an easy out of the box uneventful installation! No tweaking it’s just working! Great job!
I have friends who switched from T-Mobile to O2, because they don't fool around with your connection.
