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iTether App Offers Internet Tethering On Your iPhone for One Time Fee
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I purchased the app on my iPhone 4 16gb running 5.0.1 and downloaded the Mac app on my MBP 15" 2.2Ghz '11, running 10.7.2. But the MAC app keeps crashing constantly.
I know iOS apps can crash, but what can I do about this mac app for it to NOT crash every 2 seconds??
The time that it worked 5 seconds was perfect, it just worked. It's a pitty though that the iOS app can not work in the background and has to be active all the time.. Hopefully they can fix that in an update..
But still I have the problem that the Mac app keeps crashing? Anyone else having this problem as well?
What can I do about it?
When the mac app crashed, the iOS app tells me it's dying..
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I know iOS apps can crash, but what can I do about this mac app for it to NOT crash every 2 seconds??
The time that it worked 5 seconds was perfect, it just worked. It's a pitty though that the iOS app can not work in the background and has to be active all the time.. Hopefully they can fix that in an update..
But still I have the problem that the Mac app keeps crashing? Anyone else having this problem as well?
What can I do about it?
When the mac app crashed, the iOS app tells me it's dying..
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Good Point Taken...
However, the real reason Mr Jobs decided to get in bed with AT$T as the iPhone's first official carrier, is because AT$T was the only company that would agreed to "kick-back" to Apple Inc. one of the highest ever profit sharing slices of the total revenue collected by any phone carrier at that time. I believe it ended up being at least 1/3 of the total collected by AT$T for the life of a 2 year contract. Verizon was also initially in the hunt for the first iPhone, but rightfully balked at Apple's financially unreasonable demands. Steve claimed it had more to do with Verizon being on a different network, but the CEO of Verizon remembered it differently.
And while the LG Optimus V is hardly a top-level powerhouse smart-phonelike the new Galaxy Nexus (looks like it's the best smartphone by anyone right now), not everyone wants, or needs their phone to be a complete, and comprehensive computing ecosystem. Some (like myself) just want a competent communications device that does exactly what it's supposed to -- as in reliably making calls, texting, emailing, and maybe some light web surfing and GPS navigation. The LG Optimus easily does all of that fairly efficiently, and at a cost that's one of the best value-to-performance bargains on the market. I believe even the NYT dubbed it the best "value" smartphone deal in America in 2011.
If I want, or need a higher resolution screen and more powerful performance for more productive things like office and/or photo/video work, I've got a very nice Android 10" dual-core tablet that can do circles around any of the dedicated smart-phones, and it's not much more problems for me to carrying around than some of these larger screened phones that demand that one is completely at ease using an ultra miniaturized device for all of their binary day-to-day needs -- as they also begin to suffer from carpal'ed-thumbs and strained, squirrelly eyesight that can come from endlessly staring at a teeny-tiny 4" screen for the majority of your digital content.
I love OS X as an operating system for my bigger tech devices: as in my laptop/desktop. But iOS is not (for my needs) as technically sophisticated and customizable as Android's OS is. You can jailbreak an iPhone, but you'll never be able to get into it's deeper kernel foundation by fully rooting the device and truly making it your own, because iOS -- being closed sourced system -- simply does not allow it. iOS probably is a perfect mobile OS for those who don't want to ever have to think about getting under it's hood. Android is just the opposite. That is why I think Android is the most preferred mobile OS for most of those under 35 (number one), and iOS is tops for the "boomer" set. Learning how to push a command-line program via an SDK is probably NOT ever going to be very popular, or desirable for most iOS fans. For many that use and love Android, it is practically de rigueur to do so if one really wants to ever have full control over their device's hardware and software.
As one of my programmer clients succinctly compared the two competing system against each other: for him, and many others just like him (including myself): iOS is to checkers - as Android is to chess...
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I purchased the app on my iPhone 4 16gb running 5.0.1 and downloaded the Mac app on my MBP 15" 2.2Ghz '11, running 10.7.2. But the MAC app keeps crashing constantly.
I know iOS apps can crash, but what can I do about this mac app for it to NOT crash every 2 seconds??
The time that it worked 5 seconds was perfect, it just worked. It's a pitty though that the iOS app can not work in the background and has to be active all the time.. Hopefully they can fix that in an update..
But still I have the problem that the Mac app keeps crashing? Anyone else having this problem as well?
What can I do about it?
When the mac app crashed, the iOS app tells me it's dying..
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Same problem.... Solutions?
It's great how apple limit the functionality of their products in order to satisfy their own bottom line. The iphone would be a smarter phone if apple would just let go....
Umm, actually in this case it is the US telecommunication providers who are trying to satisfy their bottom line. In plenty of other countries people can tether their iPhones for free. But here the carriers want you to pay extra. And they don't just do this with the iPhone.
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....please take your petty, juvenile squabble elsewhere...I'm ( and I imagine others ) are trying to enjoy a thread about iTether.
No!
Working on O2 in the UK.
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Been waiting for something like this as O2 want more £££ from me to add tethering to my contract (data is data guys)
Been waiting for something like this as O2 want more £££ from me to add tethering to my contract (data is data guys
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Does this app also work for IMAP traffic (port 143, 993 for SSL, etc.)?
Working fine for Safari browsing, but can't send/receive email on my IMAP accounts (which is more of what I'd use it for).
Skimmed the other 8 pages of posts.....but may have missed it.
Working fine for Safari browsing, but can't send/receive email on my IMAP accounts (which is more of what I'd use it for).
Skimmed the other 8 pages of posts.....but may have missed it.
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_0_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9A405 Safari/7534.48.3)
This is when u wish u had Sprint for a about a week. Only a week, because this app won't last
This is when u wish u had Sprint for a about a week. Only a week, because this app won't last
Bought the app, definitely better than handylight.
2 things that suck about it though: 1) it cant run in the background - if you hit the home button, the connection dies. I wonder what happens if you make/receive a phone call? Guessing it dies [Edit: it does die]. 2) it seems to rely on some server check with Tether - meaning if they are having server issues or are out of business, then the app won't work.
if those 2 things are resolved, it would be much better. and if they find a way to work in wifi/bluetooth tethering, that would be icing on the cake.
my 2 cents.
EDIT: It stops working if you receive a phone call. Not awesome.
2 things that suck about it though: 1) it cant run in the background - if you hit the home button, the connection dies. I wonder what happens if you make/receive a phone call? Guessing it dies [Edit: it does die]. 2) it seems to rely on some server check with Tether - meaning if they are having server issues or are out of business, then the app won't work.
if those 2 things are resolved, it would be much better. and if they find a way to work in wifi/bluetooth tethering, that would be icing on the cake.
my 2 cents.
EDIT: It stops working if you receive a phone call. Not awesome.
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Couldn't you just use Windows 7's built in wifi sharing (hotspot) function using:
netsh wlan command?
Someone test sharing out the iTether for me and let me know - if this works i'm probably going to buy this app. I need to be able to bridge it into a wifi hotspot from my laptop for it to be useful enough.
netsh wlan command?
Someone test sharing out the iTether for me and let me know - if this works i'm probably going to buy this app. I need to be able to bridge it into a wifi hotspot from my laptop for it to be useful enough.
Total Price? $14 + $29.95?
What is the actual cost? On the iTether website, it says that the cost of the software is $29.95 - is that the pc/mac software cost? So do we pay $14 for the iPhone app, and then another $29.95 for the mac software? Ugh. If that's what we have to do, I'm not sure I would have bought the app.
What is the actual cost? On the iTether website, it says that the cost of the software is $29.95 - is that the pc/mac software cost? So do we pay $14 for the iPhone app, and then another $29.95 for the mac software? Ugh. If that's what we have to do, I'm not sure I would have bought the app.
Everybody's does.. whether your carrier allows it to work without paying for their ridiculous tethering plans is another story.
From what I understand, it's a US thing not a world thing. That's the biggest hurdle of understanding about this whole deal. Lots of people don't realize the US carriers are specifically hosing their customers on the deal of tethering. It's quite expensive to turn tethering on due to forced extra costs and it's done on a monthly basis. Even if you paid $50 for a one time thing with iTether, it's a drop in a bucket compared to what you'd have to pay for similar functionality over the course of just 2 months.
I don't think the problem is a concern that this app works (though it making it into the App Store is a little surprising) - my concern is it bypassing the billing/fee model with my provider (AT&T).
I recently, finally , got called out about tethering with my Android device, with the "Change plan and pay or stop" message. Custom ROM, TTL tweaks, etc.
I recently, finally
, got called out about tethering with my Android device, with the "Change plan and pay or stop" message. Custom ROM, TTL tweaks, etc.
It does. I bought and tested this morning. All my IMAPS email got through. SMTPS as well. I even went as far as running a git pull / git push cycle with the git over ssh (git+ssh) protocol. Everything worked. Couldn't be more pleased
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