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The uproar was bad enough last week when Sling offered their Slingbox upgrade program and the $50 credit, and, oh yea by the way, mentioned that the upcoming iPhone app would only work with newer hardware.

Then AT&T made a little change to the terms-of-service, which essentially made it look like the Slingplayer app would never see the App Store. Which simply shifted everyones anger from Sling to AT&T. The change that was made to the terms was as follows;

This means, by way of example only, that checking email, surfing the Internet, downloading legally acquired songs, and/or visiting corporate intranets is permitted, but downloading movies using P2P file sharing services, customer initiated redirection of television or other video or audio signals via any technology from a fixed location to a mobile device, web broadcasting, and/or for the operation of servers, telemetry devices and/or Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition devices is prohibited.

Then, (thankfully) a little less than 24 hours later, AT&T offered up a little apology stating that the change was a mistake.

The language added on March 30 to AT&T’s wireless data service Terms and Conditions was done in error. It was brought to our attention and we have since removed it. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Of course, even with AT&T making an apology for causing the uproar, we have yet to see the SlingPlayer app make it into the App Store. Ultimately, that is up to Apple. In the meantime, it looks like it is safe to shift our anger back to Sling and away from AT&T, at least until they do something else wrong.

[Engadget]