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A while back I had to do something similar to download a podcast. The iPhone doesn't let you download apps or iTunes media (including podcasts) that are over 10MB in size over the cellular network. So I tethered to my MacBook, downloaded in iTunes, and synced the podcast back to the device.

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I've run into that 10MB problem, too! I think I remember Apple's threshold was 100MB originally, and the 10MB one is just absurd. These solutions seem a little bulky, but the tethering is to the point it's pretty seamless. I just wish an iPhone 4 jailbreak would come out so I could go back to MyWi instead of paying AT&T an extra $15/mo.

It was increased to 20MB near the end of 2009.

Devs can get around this by downloading extra bits on first startup or heavily compressing big datasets and decompressing them on first startup. Only a handful do, but there are ways around it. It would be nice if it was just a warning instead of a strict rule.

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