NetShare Officially Rejected from App Store

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Link: NetShare banned from AppStore
Description:: With no official tethering solution in sight, Apple closes the door on the one commercial solution...

Posted on MacBytes.com
Approved by Mudbug

Where does this leave existing customers? Apple should guarantee compatibility (or allow for service upgrades), or refund existing customers if the application breaks.

I didn't know, when I bought NetShare, about the industry politics meaning my purchase was likely to stop working without notice or potential for fixes (well, alright, I did, but some people may not have). We're customers, and we paid for this application. We have the right to expect it to work.

I bought it for the day it was up and never got it to work for some reason. (although I did not try that hard I admit)

Tethering would be nice from AT&T, then I could drop the second phone with its data plan that does work for tethering.

It would be nice to get a refund, considering I bought the app expecting to get an iPhone, but I never did and never will.

What a shame!!! Apple really needs to loosen their grip...

This will just make the jail breaking community all that much stronger !

I know i am going that route now since apple is restricting every thing far too much!

I canclled my waited purchase of an Iphone 3g and bought a Nokia e71 and share the wifi with my ipod touch instead. The b.s. coming from Apple with this app, Podcaster etc is leaving this long term Apple fan a little uneasy. Sure I love my iMac and Touch but something as important as the phone (in its own context) I am not going to start carrying two phones just to pleaase Apple.

Apple has started it progress to the Dark Side and they will become the evil empire. :)

I have a $4.99 donation waiting for you in Cydia :)

Actually iPhoneModem is already there...

I think AT&T's reasoning is that they would rather have that bandwidth available to sign up more iPhone users instead of allowing current iPhone users to essentially use their phones a modems for their computers. If they allowed millions of people to use Netshare, I'm sure a large number of people would be using it as the primary modem for their computer. This would REALLY create a problem for AT&T's bandwidth. You think your iPhone's connection is slow now ... just wait until everyone is using it as a computer modem! Then the servers will REALLY be slow!

Apple and AT&T are missing out on an opportunity though. The could make more money by converting Netshare to a paid service. Just as Black Berry users can pay an extra $30 per month for the tethering service, AT&T and Apple could do the same thing with Netshare.

I think the reason they are allowing existing Netshare users to continue to use the App is so that they can study those users' usage patterns and get an idea of the comparison of data usage between the average Netshare user and the average non-Netshare iPhone user. Think of it as "guinnea pigs;" a test run.

Apple has started it progress to the Dark Side and they will become the evil empire. :)

Darth Jobs? Or maybe he's the Emperor whilst Jon Ive is the Darth :p

I'd laugh if at Macworld Steve came out dressed as Vader lol

On topic, i didn't know this was still available so recently. Was it on the UK store?