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well, that didn’t take long: basic tethering app for the G1

The G1 can now work as a basic Web proxy, which means that a full tethering app isn’t far away. If you half-free a device, you end up just forcing users and developers to go to extraordinary lengths merely to get around your half-assed roadblocks. Users of the iPhone have to jump through similar hoops to get their own connection sharing. The sad thing is, as with breaking DRM , the impediments are really only temporary, because any tortuous set of procedures can, eventually, be replaced with a small programmed script. Nobody uses DeCSS to rip their DVDs these days: they use Handbrake, or a commercial DVD ripping program. Similarly, while you have to install the SDK and muck around with proxy settings in this iteration, by Christmas I can guarantee it’ll be one click tethering for the current Android phones.

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