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IPhone Tethering Returns To Apple’s App Store

21 points by dawie 18y ago

charlesju 18y ago
I love this app. I wonder if AT&T will strike it down though? I think that since it's a little bit hard to setup, perhaps it can fly under the radar for a while. Do you guys think this app will last till the end of the year?
- andreyf 18y ago
  Do you guys think this app will last till the end of the year? If it doesn't, I wonder if Apple will make it disappear from "our" iPhones?
nickb 18y ago
I grabbed it just in case it disappears again. Extremely useful!
- dawie 18y ago
  Me too. I think it will be awesome. I haven't had a chance to test it yet. Have you?
  - nickb 18y ago
    Yes, I followed this: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=5950329 http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=5950329
- ashu 18y ago
  Trivial to do tethering (especially for hackers) if your iPhone is jailbroken.
  - pjhyett 18y ago
    There's nothing trivial about it, it involves a multi-step process that this app eliminates with one click.
    - ashu 18y ago
      If I understand it correctly [1] even with this app, you do have to do all the setup: set up the ad-hoc network, get your iphone to connect to the ad-hoc network, set your browsers SOCKS proxy, etc. The only difference is that this app creates a socks server on the iphone with one click, whereas with a jailbroken phone you need to do this on your laptop/desktop with a SSH one-liner. I don't see much difference. I did say that this is for jailbroken phones only, so if you've jailbroken your iPhone, you can easily run a simple ssh command? Am I missing something? [1] http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/01/netshare-iphone-tethering-app-reappears-in-the-app-store/ http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/01/netshare-iphone-tethering...
      - dschoon 18y ago
        You're not. I've been tethering my jailbroken phone for a week now, and the process is exactly as you describe. The only difference with the app is the ability to trade one line of typing for $10.
        wastedbrains 18y ago
        And your phone doesn't need to be jailbroken... downloaded and installed on a non jailbroken 3g and was up and running no problems.
- andreyf 18y ago
  Ditto, then wondered if this is a strange marketing campaign...
grendel 18y ago
bought the app because i enjoyed so much of their work on my jailbroken 1.x iphone.

21 points by dawie 18y ago

I love this app. I wonder if AT&T will strike it down though? I think that since it's a little bit hard to setup, perhaps it can fly under the radar for a while. Do you guys think this app will last till the end of the year?

andreyf 18y ago
Do you guys think this app will last till the end of the year? If it doesn't, I wonder if Apple will make it disappear from "our" iPhones?

nickb 18y ago

I grabbed it just in case it disappears again. Extremely useful!

dawie 18y ago
Me too. I think it will be awesome. I haven't had a chance to test it yet. Have you?
- nickb 18y ago
  Yes, I followed this: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=5950329 http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=5950329
ashu 18y ago
Trivial to do tethering (especially for hackers) if your iPhone is jailbroken.
- pjhyett 18y ago
  There's nothing trivial about it, it involves a multi-step process that this app eliminates with one click.
  - ashu 18y ago
    If I understand it correctly [1] even with this app, you do have to do all the setup: set up the ad-hoc network, get your iphone to connect to the ad-hoc network, set your browsers SOCKS proxy, etc. The only difference is that this app creates a socks server on the iphone with one click, whereas with a jailbroken phone you need to do this on your laptop/desktop with a SSH one-liner. I don't see much difference. I did say that this is for jailbroken phones only, so if you've jailbroken your iPhone, you can easily run a simple ssh command? Am I missing something? [1] http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/01/netshare-iphone-tethering-app-reappears-in-the-app-store/ http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/01/netshare-iphone-tethering...
    - dschoon 18y ago
      You're not. I've been tethering my jailbroken phone for a week now, and the process is exactly as you describe. The only difference with the app is the ability to trade one line of typing for $10.
      - wastedbrains 18y ago
        And your phone doesn't need to be jailbroken... downloaded and installed on a non jailbroken 3g and was up and running no problems.
andreyf 18y ago
Ditto, then wondered if this is a strange marketing campaign...

grendel 18y ago

bought the app because i enjoyed so much of their work on my jailbroken 1.x iphone.