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I still have a copy of the NetShare tethering host that the App Store accidentally posted for about two hours soon after they opened for business. Apple yanked it from the store in a hurry but they've made no attempt to delete it from my phone. I have to believe that AT&T tried very hard to talk/threaten them into doing just that.

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I'm quite glad Apple decided that myself, and I'd have liked Amazon not to delete this book. What I'm saying, though, is that if Apple had wanted to delete NetShare remotely and offer a refund, I wouldn't have considered them doing that to be at all offensive. It would have been their right.

Have you tried yours lately? I think they disabled the functionality with a software update :-/

No, but that is their right. They're not required to continue to support the app forever with their own network resources, but they don't get to physically (logically?) yank it off my phone.

Yup, mine works perfectly. They never messed with it. I'm using a 1st gen. iPhone with 3.0 software.

i have tris (the tetris game that got pulled because of rights issues) and it still works like it did back in OS1.0.

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