Oh , Nick Lee , you cagy boy you . See , Nick here trick Apple with a very unsubdivided iPhone program : Handy Light . On the surface it looked just like any other $ 0.99 torch app . But , secretly , it was a lot more useful .
Handy Light allowed you to make your iPhone ’s silver screen go white with a color of your option . You give it , clicked a swatch from a simple pallette , and that was it : Life in technicolor . Another stupid torch diligence like a hundred others . Or so the App Store squad guess .
in spite of appearance , the app hold back hidden code that made it a full tethering software — a programme that admit you to habituate your iPhone as a 3 thousand modem . Using this power you’re able to surf the web from your computer , using the iPhone as a bridge to the cyberspace . you’re able to do this using your iPhone ’s preferences too , but that mode you will have to pay the additional $ 20 per calendar month that AT&T want you to pay for this kind of service . That is $ 20 supererogatory on top of whatever you are paying for your iPhone data plan . With Handy Light , the tethering service was completely free .
It exercise attractively : You just needed to set up a Wi - Fi web in your laptop computer , connect your iPhone to it , change a few parameters in your reckoner ’s Wi - Fi preferences , and that was it . Within seconds , your notebook computer was able to surf the WWW . And yes , I say was . Unfortunately , it did n’t last long . The app was pull from iTunes as soon as news of its true nature appeared online . Those who downloaded it , however , can keep delight its benefits .
Click to viewA great story with a lamentable ending . Hopefully , they will keep republish similar apps as they take them down . developer : Let ’s try out this again . [ App Shopper , MacRumors , Forbes , AppStore HQ ]
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