Charging for tethering is stupid anyway, as people are just using the bandwidth they are paying for. The only thing I detest more is that AT&T forces me to pay for text messages that I didn't even want.
You can call AT&T and tell them to turn off text messages entirely. I did that a long time ago. I use iMessage 98% of the time, and the other 2% goes through my Google Voice SMS, so I no longer need the ability to receive in-bound SMS on the AT&T number. It's a move I've never regretted, and I'm thrilled to longer give a single cent to AT&T for absurdly exorbitant text messages.
Agreed. So is Apple's charging for media feeds on an iPhone that I read over my own bandwidth, on my own device, from a 3rd party I have a private relationship with. Yet that stands somehow.
What stands? If the purchase doesn't originate within an app then Apple doesn't get a cut. They have put rules in place basically saying that the private relationship must have formed outside the app (no linking to buy pages), but that is different than what you're complaining about.
