Drama! Excitement! Childish behaviour!
Update: I did manage to buy NetShare while it was briefly available through the Australian iTunes App Store. And it certainly does seem to work nicely. It’s only a web proxy, and therefore of limited utility (Twitter would work, but Mail wouldn’t).Another update: I have been informed that I may be wrong about this, and will investigate. Will be best to see if routed can be configured to make the iPhone a true router. It clearly already has a full routing implementation – that’s just part of the kernel. And the route command is there. So it may be rather less complicated than people are making it out to be.
Another update: As has been pointed out by people who actually do these sorts of things for a living, routed isn’t important. IP Forwarding is. That’s done with the ipfw tool, which is part of iPhone OS, but may be lacking all sorts of internal goodness which actually makes it, well, useful to do packet forwarding. Research continues…
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