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iTether App Offers Internet Tethering On Your iPhone for One Time Fee

dukebound85 said:
Does that mean ATT can not detect it from your understanding?
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As far as I can think... I don't think so. But it depends on what the traffic looks like that is coming out of the App...

Also, like I mentioned earlier... the fact that it is phoning home is kind of giving you away ;-)

However, a better question is whether or not this is actually against ATT policy at all. This is just an App that is talking to the internet... that's obviously not against policy.... and _happens_ to also send and receive data over the USB port (that's also not against policy).

Here's a thinker for you: If I make an app that sits around all day waiting for an email to come in... and when it does it is supposed to download a file that is sent as a link in that email and then push that file down the USB port to my computer. If I send an email to that app (well, to a server that that App is looking at) from that same computer... I have just initiated a download from the internet to my computer _through_ the phone.

Is that against ATT policy?

How would you draw the line? Legally, where is that line? I think it's hard to say.

It's obvious that ATT is against your phone running as a wifi hotspot while using 3G data without paying them extra cash. But that's not what's happening here. We're just communicating with an App that happens to simultaneously be communicating with the internet...
 
someone asked about the authentication issue
 

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Anonymous Freak said:
Edit: nevermind, someone else posted a better link.
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Ran the program and also got through to the "Tether has been succesfully installed" page on their site. How do I register my copy though? Still cant get on and says that my copy is "expired". Is it because the servers are slammed?
 
I bought it already but can't test it due to not being able to download the mac client and learn how to connect, but a question: I use a battery extender case (it plugs into the 30 pin connecter and has a micro usb thing, using a micro usb I can charge and sync) so would I be able to do this through a micro usb or do I have to take the case off and use a 30 pin connector and be naked?
 
Downloaded the windows version and it was authenticated fine. Tried connecting but no internet. I guess because of tethers servers being slammed? Will try later.
 
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#17 in Top Paid Apps, and #1 in Top Grossing Apps.

You kinda think if apple was going to pull the app, they would have by now. Surely they have some kind of alert in place when an app jumps up to number one in a matter of 2 hours or so.
 
App icon

Aside from the other problems going on here...

Does anyone else's app icon not display the same as in iTunes and the store? On my phone, it's just the "t" on a black background.
 
BCurry1 said:
Update:

#17 in Top Paid Apps, and #1 in Top Grossing Apps.

You kinda think if apple was going to pull the app, they would have by now. Surely they have some kind of alert in place when an app jumps up to number one in a matter of 2 hours or so.
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Just wait until tomorrow. It's the middle of the night in the US. Once people wake up and hear about this it's going to get insane.

Too bad about the "phoning home" thing. Based on their twitter feed it sounds like they are going to try to remove it pronto. Unfortunately, I'm not sure their servers are going to be able to handle what's going to happen about 5-6 hours from now.

They need to move to a new hosting solution in the next couple of hours or they are going to miss out on a ton of potential sales (and maybe even have Apple pull the app because of customers wanting money back).

This is a pretty precarious situation for them...
 
andy721 said:
It's free if jailbroken.
Who buys ***** anymore?
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Did you steal all the equipment listed in your signature as well, ****ing idiot.

Also, after buying their app, and telling their twitter account about their number 1 grossing status, he offered me a free company t-shirt, one less thing i have to go steal right....
 
friedmud said:
Just wait until tomorrow. It's the middle of the night in the US. Once people wake up and hear about this it's going to get insane.

Too bad about the "phoning home" thing. Based on their twitter feed it sounds like they are going to try to remove it pronto. Unfortunately, I'm not sure their servers are going to be able to handle what's going to happen about 5-6 hours from now.

They need to move to a new hosting solution in the next couple of hours or they are going to miss out on a ton of potential sales (and maybe even have Apple pull the app because of customers wanting money back).

This is a pretty precarious situation for them...
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I'm always amazed at some people (not you) complaining when they buy something during a mad rush and immediately come to the conclusion that it's "the worst $15 they ever spent", or "it doesn't work", or "insert complaint". I see the $15 as money spent on something that may or may not get pulled so I might as well get my foot in the door while the door is open. I'm sure after a couple of days it'll work great and everyone will be happy. If it does get pulled those of us that got it will enjoy it for probably the duration of OS 5.x. :eek:
 
mingoglia said:
I'm always amazed at some people (not you) complaining when they buy something during a mad rush and immediately come to the conclusion that it's "the worst $15 they ever spent", or "it doesn't work", or "insert complaint". I see the $15 as money spent on something that may or may not get pulled so I might as well get my foot in the door while the door is open. I'm sure after a couple of days it'll work great and everyone will be happy. If it does get pulled those of us that got it will enjoy it for probably the duration of OS 5.x. :eek:
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Agreed.

I was personally fairly skeptical (look back toward the beginning of this thread). But after checking everything out (especially with the help of some of the links from Arn... he's been awesome tonight) this is definitely a legit company.

They happened to make a mistake by having it phone home... but I don't think they realized at the time what that would actually mean if _millions_ of iPhone users all tried to use the App at the same time!

Like you say, the demand will eb and things will work fine again soon enough.
 
Taken for Slickdeals about iTether: "Limited Warranty. 3235106 warrants to the person who downloads and installs the Software that, for a period of thirty days from the date that the Software is downloaded if installed and used in accordance with 3235106's express instructions, the Software will substantially perform those functions described on the Tether.com website."

So theoretically, they can just shutdown their servers in 30 days after Apple/AT&T/Verizon gets on their ass.
 
collect3 said:
For iPad <-> iPhone tethering try CoBrowser - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cobrowser/id392915628?mt=8
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Interesting... this is pretty close to what I described in my post above about iTether using bluetooth. Only difference is that they are just sending an image back (instead of sending the raw "internet data stream").

Pretty smart considering that they would have to write a whole browser from the ground up that would decode the stream coming from the phone and render the page. Well... there might be a way to get the built in Webkit to do it though... interesting.

Someone want to give me some cash so I can make a startup to make this happen? ;-)
 
nooboob said:
Taken for Slickdeals about iTether: "Limited Warranty. 3235106 warrants to the person who downloads and installs the Software that, for a period of thirty days from the date that the Software is downloaded if installed and used in accordance with 3235106's express instructions, the Software will substantially perform those functions described on the Tether.com website."

So theoretically, they can just shutdown their servers in 30 days after Apple/AT&T/Verizon gets on their ass.
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Except that would royally piss off their large already installed user base on other platforms. While it is of course possible that they decided to "cash out" by making a big splash on iPhone, getting a ton of money, then quitting; they are an established company, so that looks doubtful.
 
I seem to remember Apple not being so happy about apps doing their own license checks. Of course, you can ask a user to "login" to your SaaS/other service, but in terms of entitlement checking, I seem to remember Apple requiring devs to remove any dependencies on doing license checks against anything other than Apple's IAP system (e.g. check entitlements against servers Apple owns).

This app implements its own (very rudimentary, and currently non-functional) license checking scheme that is leading to huge failures of the app to work due to server load.

I wonder if this will run amok of Apple's guidelines for not doing your own DRM/license checking and/or creating a poor user experience....
 
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