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Those who purchased NetShare, still working today?

Kevster89

Kevster89

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Oct 14, 2008
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I had a feeling that NetShare would eventually be removed due to the contract between Apple and AT&T, yet I never got around to purchasing it like I eventually planned on doing until it was too late and Apple pulled NetShare from the App Store.

For those of you who purchased NetShare before its removal from the App Store, does it still work? Is it a good reliable app, easily sharing the phone's 3G connection with your laptop? Any other comments and input regarding this app is welcome as well!

Thanks y'all :D

:apple: Kevin :apple:
 
Still works. Sometimes getting it to connect for the first time, if its been awhile, takes a few tries. It also crashes about once or twice per hour, depending on how much memory is available. Rebooting usually fixes it for a few hours. Not too bad a deal. I only use it at my girlfriend's, since she doesn't have internet. I know...weird. Then she steals my iPhone to play Kakuro...lol.
 
Kevster89 said:
I had a feeling that NetShare would eventually be removed due to the contract between Apple and AT&T, yet I never got around to purchasing it like I eventually planned on doing until it was too late and Apple pulled NetShare from the App Store.

For those of you who purchased NetShare before its removal from the App Store, does it still work? Is it a good reliable app, easily sharing the phone's 3G connection with your laptop? Any other comments and input regarding this app is welcome as well!

Thanks y'all :D

:apple: Kevin :apple:
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You can always jailbreak and get PDAnet ($29 for full version, but free if you only access http sites, no https, iirc)
 
you can d/l the 1.33 version of pdanet which is still free, better and easier to work than netshare imo. you need to jailbreak to use it.
 
FLAVAH said:
you need to jailbreak to use it.
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So without NetShare there is basically no way to share your phone's cellular connection with your comp, unless the phone is jailbroken? That sucks because I don't want to have to jailbreak.
 
Is there some way to get NetShare from someone else who has it so I could have it on my iPhone? Are there any NetShare owners out there willing to help me out. I'd be willing to pay for it, if that helps.
 
Luke1robb said:
Is there some way to get NetShare from someone else who has it so I could have it on my iPhone?
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NO.
Purchased applications can only run on a device authorised/synced to the buyer's iTunes account. Some of the buyer's iTunes account info is included in the ipa package, so sharing a purchased copy is silly and pointless.
 
dZp said:
NO.
Purchased applications can only run on a device authorised/synced to the buyer's iTunes account. Some of the buyer's iTunes account info is included in the ipa package, so sharing a purchased copy is silly and pointless.
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I'm pretty sure you can use someone else's iphone application, you just need to authorize it on my phone and then I'm all set. Anyone wanna help me out?
 
Luke1robb said:
I'm pretty sure you can use someone else's iphone application, you just need to authorize it on my phone and then I'm all set. Anyone wanna help me out?
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No offense man, but no one is going to offer to share their app with you, if even possible
 
Kevster89 said:
No offense man, but no one is going to offer to share their app with you, if even possible
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I was looking to do the same thing. What he could is have someone send him the .ipa, change their password to something generic, install the app, authorize it, and then the owner could change their password again.

If anyone is willing to do this, please PM me.
 
alansmallen said:
I was looking to do the same thing. What he could is have someone send him the .ipa, change their password to something generic, install the app, authorize it, and then the owner could change their password again.

If anyone is willing to do this, please PM me.
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Just jailbreak and use pdanet. It's better than netshare anyway.
 
Risk of iPhone not syncing with iTunes, and more

LSUtigers03 said:
It's the exact same thing I've had no issues in terms of stability.
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Here's a problem....

Jail-breaking your iPhone is ACTUALLY a violation of Terms of Use with at&t, so you will not only risk having iTunes not sync with your iPhone (see the new Mac OS X update that does this) but also at&t KILLING your phone, and force you to pay the termination fee of $800.
 
alchemistmuffin said:
Here's a problem....

Jail-breaking your iPhone is ACTUALLY a violation of Terms of Use with at&t, so you will not only risk having iTunes not sync with your iPhone (see the new Mac OS X update that does this) but also at&t KILLING your phone, and force you to pay the termination fee of $800.
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Tethering is a violation of AT&T iphone policy but you're trying as hard as you can to do that. Also the early termination fee isn't $800. A jailbroken iphone syncs just as well as a non jailbroken one. The AT&T terms and conditions says nothing about jailbreaking.
 
alchemistmuffin said:
Here's a problem....

Jail-breaking your iPhone is ACTUALLY a violation of Terms of Use with at&t, so you will not only risk having iTunes not sync with your iPhone (see the new Mac OS X update that does this) but also at&t KILLING your phone, and force you to pay the termination fee of $800.
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yawwwwwn. lets try the facts shall we. etf is $175. there has not been one documented case of apple crippling someone's itunes after jb'ing

att has ZERO to do with syncing with itunes
 
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