15-year-old Programmer Slipped Tethering App Past Apple’s App Store Goon Squad
One of the coolest tricks that the iPhone can perform is kept locked down by Apple and a greedy phone company. If you want to share your iPhone’s 3G connection with your computer, AT&T want you to cough up $20 a month – pretty steep, especially since tethering is a functionality that cell phone users in other countries often get for free (you pay for the data, not the service).
Perhaps that is what motivated 15-year-old Nick Lee to create a $0.99 tethering app – the only problem: there is no way that they goon squad that police the app store would let something like that hit the virtual shelves. Lee got around that little problem by disguising the tethering app as one of those annoying flashlight applications; it looked as though it just turned the screen different colors. What it actually did was to turn the iPhone into a mobile Wi-Fi hotspot, without the need for that exorbitant monthly fee.
The bad news is that it has since been pulled by the aforementioned app store goon squad – so you can’t download it from the app store anymore. The good news – jailbreaking is easier than ever.
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