I wonder why this guy thought sacrificing his iPhone developer status was a good idea. If it gets 'remote killed', it was all for naught. Maybe he's going Droid.
EDIT: He's just a kid
> Hi, I'm Nick Lee, an aspiring 15-year-old web designer and programmer. I consider ...
Why? Does he have something else to sell? Assuming he doesn't, he's just put his effort into learning what could be a valuable skill, but now can't work on the platform (ever again?).
If he wants to get a regular job later /or/ if he wants to launch a product later, having his name in the headlines helps quite a lot.
i don't want to say "there is no such thing as bad publicity" because there is, but in this case, enough people, I think, will feel that a tethering application is 'not evil' and that this was overall a good thing to make it a net win for the programmer.
Even if apple blocks him forever (I don't know their history... would they really say "no, f-ck you" five years from now?) and even if the apple platform remains dominant (I will be very surprised if apple continues its dominance after Jobs runs out of spare parts.) there are plenty of companies that make iphone apps that I'm sure would be happy to hire the kid.
And there are plenty of other platforms out there to work on, too.
This is app. not really 'bad' or evil as such. It's not like he is breaking into computers, stealing money or defrauding people. All the app. does is something other phones can do like Nokias and Android phones, but Apple or AT&T don't want you too.
In a few years this tethering will free on the iPhone (think competition) and common place or obsolete (multiple SIMs, same contract) and no one will care.
I was not aware he had an account. hm. he also looks like he's interested in MySQL NDB cluster, a really promising technology that it seems people are ignoring.
EDIT: He's just a kid
> Hi, I'm Nick Lee, an aspiring 15-year-old web designer and programmer. I consider ...