Tethering on Your iPhone! Absolutely Not!
by Eric March on August 1, 2008 at 9:42 am
Astute App Store watchers may have noticed an interesting new app appear in the paid section. NetShare, designed by those clever folks at Nullriver (you know, the Installer folks) was designed to act as a SOCKS proxy that would hook up an ad-hoc WiFi network to the iPhone’s EDGE or 3G data connection, effectively becoming a gateway between your WiFi-enabled computer and your phone.
“Wait,” you say. “That’s tethering!” Why, yes! Yes, it is. A hacky kind of back-door tethering, but it’s tethering just the same. Uh, I mean, was. Nobody yet knows how this managed to get all the way through Apple’s vetting process (which would have shoved this into the bit bucket the second its purpose was sussed out — you remember The Steve’s List of Naughty Things from back at the SDK launch keynote, right?) but somehow it did, and it ended up making it all the way to the App Store, complete with a $10 sticker price, before the Apple-shaped bulb over someone’s head flickered briefly and they yanked it.
Did anyone manage to buy it before it was given the axe? Well, at least one person did, and Engadget got some video to prove it — though they couldn’t quite get it to work. Still, it was an interesting gaffe on Apple’s part, and is another, albeit minor quirk we can just stick on the pile.
(via Engadget)
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