Its gone??

This is why we can't have nice things.

leonwestbrook

I can see it in iTunes App Store but when I click on the NetShare app I get a pop up that it's not available for the Canadian iTunes Store. WTF? I really want this for my MacBook when on the go outside WIFI range or when not near a landline ISP service.

imagine-engine

so... how to I trick iTunes into thinking that I'm not in the US so I can pick it up

stevin3

Sad. This is the one app that would have gotten me out to a store to buy the 3G. Oh, well.

traphicone

If you have a jailbroken iPhone you can tether it for free.

@nosebleed: IF you are within the "unlimited" 5GB limit and you aren't using it for P2P I see no reason why they would shut you out. Plus, every company that I've heard of "threatening" to drop users has always sent them plenty of warnings first as it's in their best interest to do so.

@tineras: The app is on Apple's App Store, not AT&T's. While you 'may' have a court case against Apple for supplying an program that you can't use on AT&T they do make you sign an agreement for the service and the app can be used on other carriers around the world that do allow tethering.

Leonard Nimrod

@Jefeweizen: I guess I should have said, I'm posting from my Mac through my iPhone. That's better.

UnseenLlama

@Jefeweizen: It's still working. I'm posting from my iPhone as we speak. :-)

UnseenLlama

just checked.... "not available"

4shizz

Those that were able to purchase it - please post back and let us know if it is still working for you.

Jefeweizen

Yeah, its gone. Revolute!

mach1andy

This is just one step away from 3G VOIP.... If you could buy it could they take it away from you?

stevin3

If you click 'buy' it says 'no longer available'

jfj

i see it IN iTunes, rahter. also, when i click the buy button, it gave me the confirmation dialog, which i hit cancel on. (i don't use one-click buying).

TonyRockyHorror

i see it itunes as of 10 pm eastern thursday night. haven't tried to buy it yet, though.

TonyRockyHorror

I hate slow balls.

leetXcore

Shit, the killer app for the iPhone 3G gets released and Apple immediately puts the kibash on it!

dagamer34

they pulled it.. cant purchase it through itunes.. wow

anon

Well, in the 20 minutes it took me to think about spending the $10, this is "no longer available" according to my phone and iTunes even though I can get to it in the store - I can't buy it.

Jimmy M

@UnseenLlama:

Thank you

tineras

@nosebleed:

They released the app on their store. It's not your fault.

tineras

it's already been pulled. all the more reason to jailbreak and get this for free

waterwizard

Considering Verizon wants $30 a month for me to tether my Blackberry to my laptop, I'd be surprised if this app stays around long. I don't know if AT&T charges a fee for tethering (I thought they did from when I was looking at data plans), but if they do they'd be losing a lot of revenue from a $9.99 application. Fingers crossed that this program stays around for you iPhone users. I wish my phone did that!

coketown

@nosebleed:
You bought a legitimate app from Apple's App Store. If your ATT account gets canceled, you would have a nice reason to go after Apple for the mixup.

UnseenLlama

It's still up. only on the store through regular itunes store.

Not through the iPhone browser.

odd

I want to get it, but - i'm afraid of spending ten bucks. and then it costing me my iPhone service

nosebleed

For windows users: [www.howardforums.com]

UnseenLlama

Yeah, that was quick. Glad I grabbed it in time.

tineras

...I still see it. I'm a bit nervous about it and thus not gunna buy it, but still there. Maybe iTMS is just relying on cache for me.

Teira

"No longer available" That was fast

storm

@marm0lade: yeah...because there is no Safari on the iPhone... :-)

UnseenLlama

@marm0lade:
hmmm, wonder if spoofing the browser agent would fool that.

dogcow

It's gone. Wow, that didn't last long.

Meatlocker - still a man, despite his white iPhone fetish.

@Leonard Nimrod:
thanks for the info. I think I'll pass for now-see what Apple does about the app :D

dogcow

It's too bad the app won't tether through the iPhone-to-USB cable.

Leonard Nimrod

@Leonard Nimrod: AT&T can also tell if you are tethering by the browser requests passing thru. If they see FF3, Opera, Safari, etc than obv they know whats going on.

marm0lade

@jaredgibbs:

Don't expect this to last more than 48 hours before it gets taken down. Apple isn't this nice. :-(

VoidingWarranties

This was the feature I missed the most from my Treo 755p - the ability to tether and even then I used a third-party hack. To find this available in the App Store is truly a schock. I will now upgrade from my original iPhone to the iPhone 3g. Well worth the $9.99. To think I was JUST about to buy a mobile broadband card!

jaredgibbs

oh my, Apple is getting very nice to its users. If this passed the Jobs Gates, what else can we expect. Hmmmm.

$9.99 is not that bad at all. All business users would do it in a heard-beat. iPhone is getting very close to be ALL-IN-ONE phone. =) heheehe

vgart

$9.99 to share a slow edge connection? not this time, netshare, not this time.

the_amazing_doug

@dogcow: They can tel if you are capping the data connection speed and if it's constant and not burst. They can sample packets (even SSLed packets can apparently be determined) to see originating IP address and ports to determine if you are using it for P2P. This week AT&T told the FCC that they will disco. P2P users/abusers (is there a difference to them?) on their cell network.

Leonard Nimrod

Does this work for PC? The instructions are for Mac only.

tineras

For those that are wondering. this is $9.99

aeroworks

How will AT&T really know you are using it with a laptop? The data rate is the same, since it is going thru the iPhone 3G. Will they be able to differentiate this vs. just running Pandora's streaming music 24/7 thru the iPhone?

dogcow

WOW! The Jesus phone is just looking more and more appealing to all the haters out there. Keep these fantastic apps coming cause I firmly believe that this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Amen.

mplsboywonder

OK... You now have my attention...

DustyButt

Surprised to see this as an AppStore app.
Expected it to only be for JB'ed devices.

drtaru

not avail in the US store... oops! :(

rudeadly

Shocked it got through Apple's App Store screening...only a matter of time before they took it down. Oh well.

rbedi

The iPhone's crippled tethering is total bullshit, btw. I'm surprised you guys took all day to write a post complaining about the *camera* and you're letting them slide on tethering.

mullingitover

Can anybody from any country actually use this... ?

stevin3

@mweege: It seem to have been pulled from the store. But an FYI these apps are Pre-Approved by ATT. That was coming from the mouth of Kevin Rose and the last TWIT I believe.

websyndicate

trying to buy, but no way.
Seams that apple doesnt what me to use my italian unlocked phone,

mweege

I downloaded it instantly I love it. Works great and easy to setup. PIMP SHIT

websyndicate

The popularity bar for it is full, lol.

BadBoyNDSU

Anyone else having problems on an iPhone 3G? Followed the instructions, but there's no proxy IP. It's connected to my ad-hoc Wi-Fi network (according to the settings app) but has the 3G symbol; the same happened when I used EDGE tethering back in the old 1.1.2 days, so it's not unexpected behavior. But no proxy IP, and the proxy doesn't work. Also can't ping the phone's IP from the computer.

iEddie

"Your request could not be completed.
The item you've requested is not currently available in the US store."

BadBoyNDSU

I wonder if they can disable or delete an app the next time you check for updates. Quite likely they can and will do that in the next few days. (And then give everybody who bought it a refund too.)

geeksuperhero

I was amongst the lucky few to have bought this app before it got pulled, but I am having trouble setting it up: I have followed the instructions without finding them too complicated and have tried numerous IP address combinations, I can always successfully ping the iPhone as well and it shows up in my network menu under 'devices' yet when i connect to it, NetShare does not show any incoming/outgoing traffic and i am unable to access the internet..

blazin420

@UnseenLlama: The browser ID of mobile safari is almost certainly different than the desktop version. I know windows mobile IE has a diff browser ID than IE6/7, same with Opera mobile.

marm0lade

A fleeting glimpse of the Holy Grail, mercilessly snatched away from us. This would have made me and many others buy the iPhone.

Gizmo

There is no way in hell that AT&T will let this program remain available for purchase from the App Store.

Quatre707

I'm sure that whomever designed this application knew enough about networking that they'd use NAT or PAT. That way, when the phone sends out the frames/packets, it changes the IP and MAC to it's own as the source so that if someone inspects the packets it appears to have come from the iPhone, not another device. It's a pretty simple thing to do.

Nogard13

@Gizmo: Why not jailbreak and do this same exact thing for free then?

tsvb

A strange thing. I have been using GPRS/EGDE/3G and now 3.5G for years with my laptop via my Infrared/Bluetooth Nokias when WLAN/WiFi's have not been available. Unlimited data plan too.

This post and discussion seems like it fell out of some archive. How long will it take for iPhone to catch up with the most basic features of modern phones?

mscore

ATTENTION!!!! ATTENTION!!!
-------------------------------

TO THOSE OF YOU THAT DID, IN DEED, DOWNLOAD NETSHARE-- WOULD YOU BE SO KIND TO POST THE .APP FILE SOMEWHERE, SO WE CAN DO WHAT WE DID WITH MONKEY BALL --- BY CHANGING THE PERMISSIONS?

IS THIS POSSIBLE TO DO?

------------------------------

THANK YOU!!

kidnamedmoe

"This post and discussion seems like it fell out of some archive. How long will it take for iPhone to catch up with the most basic features of modern phones?"

Probably around the same time Nokia figures out how to make their phones as well designed and usable as Apple products.

ppiddy

@Nogard13: Isn't it still easy enough to tell that the packets are coming from a computer rather than the iphone? Like if you're requesting pages faster than the iphone is actually capable of processing them?

Keep in mind, I really don't have much expertise in such things, but it seems like there would be some giveaway, unless they really tried to hide it, that you're tethering your phone. Ugh, AT&T, we can use up the 5gb either way no problem. Who cares how we're using it!

lpranal

@ppiddy: Yeah, Windows Mobile phones have had this feature for years now. I've been 3G/EDGE tethering on my smartphone for a good long while now.

Not all of us are kids that need/want our phones designed like Mattel toys (read, rounded corners and game-like interfaces)...some of us are adults that have absolutely no problem operating Symbian and Windows Mobile phones.

Apple needs to catch up already.

TendoMentis

someone, release it to the torrents... apple's DRM has already been cracked

greenwald3132

"ATTENTION!!!! ATTENTION!!!
-------------------------------

TO THOSE OF YOU THAT DID, IN DEED, DOWNLOAD NETSHARE-- WOULD YOU BE SO KIND TO POST THE .APP FILE SOMEWHERE, SO WE CAN DO WHAT WE DID WITH MONKEY BALL --- BY CHANGING THE PERMISSIONS?

IS THIS POSSIBLE TO DO?

------------------------------

THANK YOU!!"

@kidnamedmoe: I will literally get down on my knees and pray that you burn in hell for that post.

Ginsu

"WOW! The Jesus phone is just looking more and more appealing to all the haters out there. Keep these fantastic apps coming cause I firmly believe that this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Amen. "

@mplsboywonder: OK, for Jobs's sake, I'm as big of a six-color-bleeding Apple fanboy as the next, but...come on.

Ginsu

To compare the alternatives, a company in Belgium called Mobistar offers a USB device to use 3G on PC or Mac. If you only need occasional internet access when you aren't at home, then it looks like an interesting solution: [offer.mobistar.be]

twilight-arc

@Ginsu:

was reposting it the best thing to do, though?

Parapraxis

WTF would Apple APPROVE an app then UNAPPROVE it?

Don't these apps go through a LONG approval process?

Wouldn't this mean MANY people were sleeping on the switch?

JEmlay

And the instant nature of the internet fails again. I just downloaded and installed the program, no problem.

bigtimes

IT IS DOWNLOADABLE VIA THE IPHONE APP STORE - JUST DO A SEARCH FOR IT - I JUST BOUGHT IT

RYANPROUTY

just got it

biopulse

This isn't available through the Canadian store. Is there any other way for me to get it?

mmmiles

@mscore:

What carrier are you with? Maybe you need to rewrite your sentence. Because it's quite OBVIOUS the the iphone is CAPABLE of anchoring a tethered connection. It's the fact that there's no PROGRAM for it (in the official App Store that is. this one doesn't count since we in the U.S. can't use it) that's the problem. Seeing that AT&T has it in its best interest to keep us from tethering laptops/home computers to our phones, maybe they are the ones keeping Apple from releasing this to us in the U.S.

Anyway, my poitn is that you probably aren't with AT&T and that reading is for smart people.

tatiana.noel

Wow, amazing you have to write about this! Nokia (and others)have had this feature for eons! I've even used my Nokia to browse the net with my Palm III in the good old days of infra red modems!!!

If the iPhone does not have this out of the box then i don't even consider it a fully functional product!

vmad

I knew that this app had been removed, but iTunes never said why it was unavailable... until today. "Your request could not be completed. The item you've requested is not currently available in the US store."

So there you have it, AT&T was able to have the app pulled in the US.

W T F is wrong with the country? ? ? Why do we continue to let big business control everything we do?

REVOLT!!

toddgarvin

The jailbreak and tethering hack is not difficult and works good for me. But if I could get that Netshare thing it would be cool.

FletcherKhawam

@toddgarvin:
Because ATT recognizes that 3G isn't what it "should be" in the US. Such an app would make it even worse. When 3G grows up, maybe they'll consider it.

If you don't want the big ATT to control you then go somewhere else. It's called CHOICE. Welcome to America!!!

Then of course, there's the obvious.... who said you NEED a cell phone?

JEmlay

@Ginsu: I'm with you. I dont know how this got through Apple but getting a hold of it now is impossible with the DRM.

@greenwald3132: Did you find the torrent file? Have you downloaded it?

Anyone that finds ether the .app file or the torrent file please post with the link. Thanks...

Teckidster

It's gone.

tio_jojo