Android tethering apps pulled from Market

[webrun]

This doesn't surprise me nor concern me greatly. The percentage of G1 owners with rooted phones has to be relatively small, and those owners are already saavy when it comes to finding tech info on the internet, so I don't think it will impede rooted G1 owners from finding tethering applications to download. That is where I got my tethering app a couple of months ago.

[Gatekeeper]

Actually PdaNet works without needing root, was briefly available on the market, and requires only a small windows installer based setup on the tethered pc, which puts it in the realm of "ordinary user".

[f4phantomii]

Another question is whether or not talk of such things and posting of links to tethering apps is now taboo over at xda developers or not.

I noticed yesterday someone asked about moving apps to the FAT32 portion of the SD card (instead of having to use an ext2 partition) but was immediately shut down by one of the mods, citing something about they wouldn't allow discussion of proprietary methods or something to that effect.

[here.david]

So, I buy a new home and then find out I am not allowed to use the stove only the Microwave.....hey, you can still cook food they say....while every business needs to earn a reasonable profit, when will this "less than sterling" customer service end....

I look forward to the day when these kinds of "denial of service" go the way of other unhealthy business practices.

[mlevin]

Another question is whether or not talk of such things and posting of links to tethering apps is now taboo over at xda developers or not.

I noticed yesterday someone asked about moving apps to the FAT32 portion of the SD card (instead of having to use an ext2 partition) but was immediately shut down by one of the mods, citing something about they wouldn't allow discussion of proprietary methods or something to that effect.

That's particularly distressing and disappointing. XDA is my go-to source for detailed technical discussions and where I find most of my answers. If that starts being censored (or in this case self-censored), where is a person to go?

P.S. Don't get me wrong -- I love AC for news and more community-type stuff, but the detailed techy stuff seems to be on XDA.

[JohnnyLicious]

hmmm this is BS.

oh well i still got the .apk files :]]

[LazyGenius]

haha so glad i backed up all of my apps yesterday!

doing this makes me want to tether my phone even more... its like when you tell a teenager not to drink... it makes em drink even more. Google says stop tethering and i get tether crazy lol.

[happyandyv]

Eh.. kind of expected this though right? I mean when tethering dropped for iPhone 3G it was only out for about 6 hours at first... don;t know if they ever got it back.

[andonnguyen]

You can still find the files on the developers website thankfully =]

[kitsunisan]

Would it be out of line to have a tether thread here hosting the free tether apps? Make it easier for everyone to find if they need it, I have two of them backed up myself, and I have a link to pdanet(their main website).