ElectricPig.tv is saying that Sling is ready to build an iPhone-iPod touch client for its popular place shifting video and TV over the Internet hardware. Obviously it won’t work well over EDGE, but it will work over WiFi and eventually over 3G. Their Sling source said:
iPhone and iPod touch are OS X devices, and we can write OS X apps with our eyes closed. It’s coming.
We know the 3G iPhone’s coming so that’ll obviously be better. But for now the iPod touch could end up being the best way to use Slingplayer.
The iPhone-iPod makes sense as a fantastic platform for the Slingplayer. However, Apple might not want them on their platform for fear of interfering with iTunes TV shows. Perhaps Sling can build a streaming Quicktime format with web controls that can be utilized through AJAX?
As Slingbox and iPhone owning expats, we can only say to Apple….Bring the Sling!
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