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

iTether response regarding Apple pulling the app

Around 12PM EST, Apple called our head office to let us know they were going to go ahead and pull our app iTether from the App Store. They stated it was because the app itself burdens the carrier network, however they offered us no way to remedy the solution… We were very clear when listing the app what the primary function was and they even followed up with several questions and requested a video demo then they approved the application.

We strongly disagree that it burdens a carrier’s network, as from our own data history on more than 500,000 users we know the average user consumes less than 200 MBs of data per month on Tether. In comparison, one TV show streamed from Netflix, an approved Apple App, could easily be in the 300-400 MBs range. Sure, there are some users that will consume way more than the average however that’s the case with any of these types of products.

Our team is very disappointed in Apple’s decision; as we strongly believe we help carriers better monetize their data stream by pushing customers into new data tiers further increasing their bottom-line. It is very anti-competitive to not allow any Tethering application to enter into this space to innovate. Our team has created a lot of innovative solutions for the BlackBerry product, which we were hoping to port over to the iPhone like end-to-end encryption, compression, website filtering and port filtering.

According to Apple, users who purchase iTether before it was pulled will continue to be able to use the product.

Our team is evaluating all of our options… Stay tuned.
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http://tether.com/apple-pulls-itether
 
Sorry for my newbie question... I just switch to iPhone from Android. If your iPhone is not jailbroken, once you download the app from "elsewhere" (I missed the app on Apple store)... how do you upload it to the iPhone? :confused:
 
I managed to download (and confirm that it works) on my iPhone 4. If I buy an iPhone 4s, will I be able to transfer onto that phone too?
 
EBSkater said:
Moron. No, and that's computer to iDevice.

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Nope, but it's obvious that none of you can read anything here either.
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/13929912/
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I was on my iPhone and didn't feel like reading 5 posts a time for however many posts there were. Apple still clearly knew what this app would do, I mean look at the name. My point stands as valid: Apple approved a tethering Apple possibly as a way to give the finger to carriers.
 
Tether keeps crashing on my Mac :(

Any idea why this may be and how to fix it.

I downloaded and installed it and it seemed to run fine. I then restarted my
MBP later....and it started crashing...usually about a minute after successfully establishing a connection.

Sorry if this has been covered already.

cheers

:):)
 
eidrunner247 said:
I managed to download (and confirm that it works) on my iPhone 4. If I buy an iPhone 4s, will I be able to transfer onto that phone too?
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Yes, but be sure to backup your iPhone 4 in iTunes, and I'd also transfer your purchases to your computer in iTunes (right-click and select Transfer Purchases). When you get your 4s, you can restore from backup or sync iTether to your new 4s.
 
badassdes said:
Sorry for my newbie question... I just switch to iPhone from Android. If your iPhone is not jailbroken, once you download the app from "elsewhere" (I missed the app on Apple store and downloaded from tether.com and tether/tweeter)... how do you upload it to the iPhone? :confused:
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.. help :(
 
badassdes said:
Sorry for my newbie question... I just switch to iPhone from Android. If your iPhone is not jailbroken, once you download the app from "elsewhere" (I missed the app on Apple store)... how do you upload it to the iPhone? :confused:
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not going to work
 
badassdes said:
Sorry for my newbie question... I just switch to iPhone from Android. If your iPhone is not jailbroken, once you download the app from "elsewhere" (I missed the app on Apple store and downloaded from tether.com and tether/tweeter)... how do you upload it to the iPhone? :confused:
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kalex said:
not going to work
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Hmmm... someone told me that if I have the app on the desktop you can drag it into iTunes... just needed to confim if that's true (I'm @ work). Thanks
 
stevielee said:
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'd previously read that Verizon didn't like Apple's financial terms, but more recently read this:

Fortune Editor Stephanie Mehta asked McAdam if it was a mistake that Verizon passed on the iPhone back in 2007. Interestingly, McAdams responded by saying that Verizon didn't really pass on the iPhone. Instead he implied that Apple CEO Steve Jobs wanted to make a phone that sold large volumes. "Steve Jobs is not a stupid person. He will go where the volume is, and the volume was in GSM," he said. "This wasn't about us passing on it. He made strategic decision. Now he made the CDMA version, saw the results and realized that is not bad decision."
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In any case, even assuming that Verizon also shied away from Apple's aggressive cost sharing model in 2007, I don't see it as a big deal. Verizon, Sprint, and AT&T all have the iPhone now, and they generally don't charge differently for iOS plans vs Android plans, AFAIK.

Some of your post is about how your low-end smartphone is adequate, partly because you have a 10" tablet. I've spent a lot of time with tablets; they're fun, but don't fit in my workflow. To each his own.

I'm impressed with the LG Optimus V's bang-for-your buck, but given how much I use my pocket computer, it's worth it to me to spend more on something better.

As far as your assertion that Android is for the under 35 crowd and iOS is for boomers, I don't see that where I work. As expected, most managers and non-techies I know prefer iOS. Some of the programmers I work with prefer iOS, some prefer Android, and many are platform agnostic like me.

This is all off topic, so I suggest moving it to PM or a different thread if you want to discuss it further.
 
Meh

Just use the jailbreak one, or better yet, get free faster-than-4G by joining random networks (the password is almost always the same as the network name if it is 5 characters like "4GIJQ") :D:D:D:D:D:D
 
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