App Store Untethers, Retethers Tethering App

For a couple hours on Thursday, visitors to Apple’s App Store could spend $10 and buy NetShare, an application that “tethers” a notebook to an iPhone’s wireless data connection. With this connection, the iPhone essentially becomes a portable hotspot for connecting the computer to the Internet.

Then, just a short while after it was posted, the application disappeared from the site.

Computerworld reports that Nullriver, the Canadian company behind NetShare, was surprised to find the software removed and posted a notice on its Web site saying that it didn’t violate the terms of Apple’s developer or App Store agreements.

The article points out, however, that AT&T “does not officially allow tethering for Apple’s device,” so we have to wonder.

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