Apple has removed a tethering app for the iPhone that let users share the smartphone's cellular connection to the Internet with a Mac or Windows notebook.
Apple has regularly -- and quickly -- booted earlier tethering apps from the App Store, typically without explanation.
iTether, created by a company named 3052155 Nova Scotia Ltd., was priced at $14.99 in the App Store while it was available. A companion application was required for any Mac OS X- or Windows-based notebook.
Apple pulled the plug, 3052155 Nova Scotia Ltd. developers said that they were furiously adding server capacity to handle the influx of users.
"Our team is battling all the traffic.... We've added 20 web servers to handle the load," the company said on Twitter around 10 a.m. ET.
3052155 Nova Scotia Ltd. already had similar apps for Android and BlackBerry users, debuting the latter in 2009 and adding the former in 2010.
While it was available on the App Store, iPhone owners could download iTether and use it to connect their Mac or Windows notebooks to the Web.
The company could not be reached for comment on the disappearance of its iOS app, but earlier Tuesday, MacRumors.com quoted the firm as saying, "We were very clear with Apple what our app did. They asked us a bunch of questions and then approved us."
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