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This will be banned soon. For those of you who don't want to drop $15, there's an open-source tethering app available: https://github.com/tcurdt/iProxy/wiki/ h

This will be banned soon. For those of you who don't want to drop $15, there's an open-source tethering app available: https://github.com/tcurdt/iProxy/wiki/ https://github.com/tcurdt/iProxy/wiki/ Note you will need to have an Apple developer account to be able to build and install this on a real device

larrik 15y ago
I couldn't get iProxy working right under iOS 5, and I couldn't find anyone else even trying. Worked great for me last year on iOS 4, though. I only need tethering once a year. This iTether app would have been handy last week.
- josh33 15y ago
  Once a year? Let me guess: Trade Show
  - larrik 15y ago
    Actually, Thanksgiving in a cabin with my parents. :)
siglesias 15y ago
"We were very clear with Apple what our app did. They asked us a bunch of questions and then approved us." https://twitter.com/tethercom/status/141415159376781312 https://twitter.com/tethercom/status/141415159376781312
- larsberg 15y ago
  That doesn't matter. Back when I wrote my first iOS app (which used private APIs extensively), I had long conversations with several reveiwers (e-mail and phone) where they said it was fine. We all know how _that_ played out...
  - Raphael 15y ago
    What was your app?
    - larsberg 15y ago
      WiFinder
bgramer 15y ago
From Friedmud on MacRumors: "It is true if you think about what they did here. All they did was make an App that talks over USB to your computer. Nothing wrong with that. It just so happens though that the "talking" it is doing is transcribing bits to/from the internet connection of the phone. The App itself is incapable of "tethering" without the piece installed on your computer that translates what the App is sending into a normal looking ethernet device. Think of it this way... if I made an app that was called USBTwitter... and all it did was read bits over USB and posted them to your twitter account... then I made an executable that you ran on your Mac that sent text bits over USB... you would then be able to post to twitter _through_ your phone (ie tether). This is the very same thing... but of course more general. You honestly can't stop this without disallowing apps to use the USB port on the phone (or trying to explicitly ban it in the developer terms... but it would be hard because there would be plenty of "non-tethering" applications that would want to talk over USB and send bits over the phone's net connection simultaneously...) It will be interesting to see what Apple does here..." http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=13929912#post13929912 http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=13929912#post13...

larrik 15y ago

I couldn't get iProxy working right under iOS 5, and I couldn't find anyone else even trying. Worked great for me last year on iOS 4, though. I only need tethering once a year. This iTether app would have been handy last week.

josh33 15y ago
Once a year? Let me guess: Trade Show
- larrik 15y ago
  Actually, Thanksgiving in a cabin with my parents. :)

siglesias 15y ago

"We were very clear with Apple what our app did. They asked us a bunch of questions and then approved us." https://twitter.com/tethercom/status/141415159376781312 https://twitter.com/tethercom/status/141415159376781312

larsberg 15y ago
That doesn't matter. Back when I wrote my first iOS app (which used private APIs extensively), I had long conversations with several reveiwers (e-mail and phone) where they said it was fine. We all know how _that_ played out...
- Raphael 15y ago
  What was your app?
  - larsberg 15y ago
    WiFinder

bgramer 15y ago

From Friedmud on MacRumors: "It is true if you think about what they did here. All they did was make an App that talks over USB to your computer. Nothing wrong with that. It just so happens though that the "talking" it is doing is transcribing bits to/from the internet connection of the phone. The App itself is incapable of "tethering" without the piece installed on your computer that translates what the App is sending into a normal looking ethernet device. Think of it this way... if I made an app that was called USBTwitter... and all it did was read bits over USB and posted them to your twitter account... then I made an executable that you ran on your Mac that sent text bits over USB... you would then be able to post to twitter _through_ your phone (ie tether). This is the very same thing... but of course more general. You honestly can't stop this without disallowing apps to use the USB port on the phone (or trying to explicitly ban it in the developer terms... but it would be hard because there would be plenty of "non-tethering" applications that would want to talk over USB and send bits over the phone's net connection simultaneously...) It will be interesting to see what Apple does here..." http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=13929912#post13929912 http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=13929912#post13...