Apple pulls iTether App for iPhone (Updated with statements by developers)

UPDATE [Tuesday, November 29, 2011]: iTether app development team published a blog post offering their side of the story.

It was great while it lasted, but iTether is absent from the App Store now. Unluckily, seems the combined effects of the hype and excitement, likely coupled with iTether’s workaround of some of the App Store limitations, may have motivated Apple enough to pull them from the store. Yesterday just after the arrival of iTether Apple fans, primarily power users who criticized Apple on their strict rules and previous exclusions of tethering programs like Netshare.

Even well, appreciations like this one make us wonder how such apps ever make it into the Apple Store in the top position. Apparently, the net connection sharing works in lot of places outside the United States, so the U. S readers are more interested in program to use their iPhone’s cellular data on their systems with no extra carrier fees.

The Tether.com web site was down at press time. Canada-based developers yesterday tweeted on twitter that Apple took no issue with the program. “We were very clear with Apple what our app did. They asked us a bunch of questions and then approved us”, the team wrote. The original iTunes link  is no longer exist so you will have to look somewhere else. If history is an indication, it won’t be long before iTether hits the Cydia store. Did you manage to download a copy yourself? Hit us in comments.

Developers posted a statement on their blog, included right below the fold. We’ve also received a tip that it is still possible to download iTether through Installous on a jailbroken iPhone.

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