Touchmods VoIP App for the Apple iPhone Sparks Controversy
February 8, 2008
Touchmods created a storm of interest when they announced a hack that adds a microphone to the Apple iPod touch and a SIP-based VoIP application that runs on the Apple iPod touch. Well controversy is brewing on Touchmods.net. Yesterday they announced that French ADSL provider Free.fr, has coded an iPhone VoIP application locked to that ISP's service. The site explains:However, since our first iPhone came as a donation from the French ADSL Provider Free (www.free.fr), the recent version of Siphon with iPhone support is temporarily locked to their service. Now, although Free is a French (European) provider, we do believe that many people will try out their service. We also know that many of you is now a little disappointed. As always: we will not let you down, but we also need to respect the ones who take us seriously and donate in time, ie. “before it works”! You need to understand our situation.
Thus, you have to be Free's customer living in France in order to use this app. Not surprisingly, many Touchmods readers are upset that this is an application for the iPhone and not the iPod Touch and that it is locked to a French ISP.
They try and lessen the blow when they write:
Of course, there will be an open version released in some days so that everybody can test SIP on iPhones and iPod Touch. But. In order to be on the safe side (you know what we mean) this open version will be time-limited, ie. you can not use it till the end of the world
Great, a time-restricted open version. Fantastic! Just what fans want.
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eok :
February 9, 2008 6:07 PM
hi,
the "locked/labeled" version has no extra major functions for touch-users in comparison to the already freely available version on our site.
it is just "locked/labeled" to "free.fr" to make it easier for their customers to install and use it.
so for a "non french based, non free.fr user" there is really no need to try to get the version there.
...eok (touchmods team)