Cooler Heads At Apple Will Let Users Access The Networks
Nullriver came out with a cute iPhone app that was banished from the iPhone App store as soon as Apple realized what it did. Their app lets a 3G iPhone user access the Internet through the 3G connection of the iPhone and share this connection through the iPhone WiFi connection to his laptop. This tethering app sold for $10.
This is not a new application. There are lots of hardware cards that allow users to do this already. The iPhone version is definitely new, but it should not have been considered against the rules. After all, the user is still paying for access to the Internet. It is just that the Internet connection is being used by another device that the user owns.
The latest report is that the app is back up and ready for more downloads. I just hope that AT&T has improved their 3G network enough to handle the increase in traffic.