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Flashlight App Sneaks Tethering Into App Store [Pulled]
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Worked fine (at least http access, haven't tried others) with iPhone 4 and MBP running Snow Leopard. Nice.
Yes they can but I doubt it. Using a killswitch to help AT&T would not be worth the cred that apple would lose.
Yeah, but wouldn't "tethering" be a violation of Apple's agreement with a developer?
Same connection as iPhone since 3GS. Troll.
And those speeds are theoretical, anyway.
+1. Apple "secretly" hates AT&T, and AT&T is not powerful enough to move Apple right now.
Apple won't killswitch the app unless its malware (ie, capturing credit card numbers, uploading all our pictures, tracking locations, etc.)
Now I have this and Netshare! Although I dont need it seeing as I dont have a laptop anymore and only use my iMac at home. Nice to have either way. If it worked with the ipad while out and about that would be great. Id love to cancel my GF's data plan if I knew I always had a data connection for her to use.
Will AT&T be able to tell we are tethering and charge us/yell at us? Have Netshare people had any problems?
I'm glad to have the app, but don't want to get dinged with fees.
I'm glad to have the app, but don't want to get dinged with fees.
It showed up for me. I just downloaded it. Thanks for the tip Macrumors to bad all this is out in the public now.
Pft, Apple will kill switch it at AT&Ts request.
Shame that it has come to this, a developer becoming banned from the App Store because carriers won't provide decent enough tethering packages...
Bought it, set it up, typing this through it right now. Great app, one the fastest tethering options I've seen.
The billing system just looks at data transferred over the course of a session, so unless you use an absurd amount of data, you should be fine.
A lot of iPhones right now are really sucking down data, especially with background abilities, pandora, etc.
Chrome worked no problem for me ... I didn't test Firefox. I don't think that Firefox looks at the OS specific proxy settings, you would need to set it in the preferences.
Sure they will pull it from the AppStore, but the question then becomes will apple use it's killswitch to remove it from all iPhone devices.