iPhone tethering app: surprised it made it into the App Store for even an hour

Tethering your laptop and mobile phone together so that you can use the Internet over a 3G connection when you’re too cheap to buy a dedicated data card is nothing new, but for iPhone 3G users it’s a near impossibility. Unless you want to jailbreak your iPhone and use a hacker-friendly application, there’s been no way to pair the iPhone and laptop, until late last week an application called Netshare made it into the App Store — yes, Apple’s official iPhone App Store. Then it disappeared. And reappeared. And… disappeared again. It’s currently unavailable. No-one has made an official statement as to why the application has been practising its teleportation skills. Perhaps it spends most of its life as an application for jailbroken iPhones, and ten percent of it as an official app?…