Jobs Says No Tethering iPad To iPhone 423
tugfoigel writes "Anyone who currently owns an iPhone and was hoping they would be able to use it as a mobile Web access point for a Wi-Fi iPad just got some bad news. Reportedly, Steve Jobs has said this will not happen. Swedish blog Slashat.se claims they e-mailed Jobs directly to ask him whether or not you'd be able to tether your iPad and iPhone and received a terse 'No' in reply. According to the report, the email headers made it plausible that the reply had come from Jobs's iPhone."
Of course... (Score:5, Funny)
Steve must produce additional sizes of iPod Touch before they can join to form iVoltron.
Re:When they came for the iPhone users (Score:2, Funny)
Christ, you sound like an AA meeting.
Re:You get what you pay for? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:When they came for the ... (Score:4, Funny)
When they came for the people who misappropriated Niemoeller for stupid shit they suddenly realized they were going to a much larger lake of flaming brimstone than they had originally thought necessary.
"Slashat.se claims they e-mailed Job" (Score:3, Funny)
Re:When they came for the iPhone users (Score:5, Funny)
FYI, there's also AAA, C, D and 9 volts meetings.
Re:You get what you pay for? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:When they came for the iPhone users (Score:3, Funny)
Tosh.0 (Score:4, Funny)
"We never even turned it on!"
Apple flipping the bird to users?! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:You get what you pay for? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:When they came for the iPhone users (Score:3, Funny)
In what way is the DRM in Windows 7 harming me?
Tthe glitch where it thinks it's been pirated and down grades you to changing to a black background and nags you to buy a real copy (even though you are using one)
It must not be nagging very effectively if he hasn't noticed it yet.
Re:You get what you pay for? (Score:5, Funny)
Steve Jobs could through a baby into a industrial tree shredder and you would still defend him.
In his defense the baby was being kind of a dick.
Re:You get what you pay for? (Score:5, Funny)
Steve Jobs could through a baby into a industrial tree shredder and you would still defend him.
In his defense the baby was being kind of a dick.
Yeah we don't know what was that baby's problem.
Re:You get what you pay for? (Score:5, Funny)
A giant customized Starbucks in Cupertino California where lattes and no soy skim macchiatos are given out free to all employees. The background music involves a playlist of Nora Jones, David Matthews, John Mayer, and Bono on loop from an Ipod docked somewhere in the Apple/Starbucks facility. Hours are long but morale is surprising high as developers, hardware and software, are given 30 minute breaks to masturbate to the new itunes interface.
All developers sit at cafe type tables with a Mac Book Pro while their lord and master Steve Jobs stands deskless in his predictable attire of a turtleneck and jeans. In fact, this is the preferred (mandatory) dress code at Apple. Jobs walks around to each and every department, separated by latte and vegan preferences, and checks on the performance and efficiency of his developers. At any given point in the day one may see Mr Jobs yelling at a programmer for not implementing a button in the perfect shade of corn flower blue (#6495ED) and immediately sends him to the apple punitive chamber, consisting of a HP Compaq running Vista Basic.
There are 2 software development departments and 2 hardware development sections in Apple. For software there is the Apple core team, Apple Open Source team. In hardware there is the Apple systems and management team and the iDevice team. Since the OSX kernel consists of a BSD darwin kernel there is no real need for low level programmers and as such the entirety of the Apple core team consists of UI designers and photoshop junkies. All software churned out from the core team is designed in a program strikingly similar to Visual Studio's form designer but with Cocoa Objective C generated instead. The 16 hour day (Jobs demands 16 hour days since he himself never sleeps) of a core dev involves lining up the right shade of chrome with the latest photoshopped graphite button and maintaining the correct color scheme, not an easy job at all.
The Apple open source team involves a little bit more coding, which is mandated to be done in TextEdit or the option of a $80 third party mac text editor. The Apple open source team doesn't actually create much code but searches the internet for interesting BSD licensed software and modifies it as it's own through obfuscation and conversion to objective C. Many of the items a mac user sees comes from the open source world stamped by apple such as the ability to play music taken from 67 different originally linux based players, CD burning, and the overall ability to click a mouse. Apple's legal department has no qualms about this practice and has assured many that since most of the code is BSD and if any is GPLed many Linux hippies should be grateful that Apple fostered WebKit by using KHTML and adding some Gecko bloat. Perhaps one of the most important items that the open source team has done to date is use parts of the FreeBSD to keep the kernel up to date.
There's not much to say about the Apple systems and management team. I suppose they can be classified in to desktop and laptop systems. Because hardware work is beneath Apple in general and thought of being only worthy of Windows Users and as such can be found working on these beauties in the starbucks bathroom. Desktops are currently made by buying dell machines and putting them in Lian Li cases, where the majority of the costs goes to buying titanium Apple emblems to paste on the sides. Laptops consists of the rebranding of only the most silver and black Sony Viaos but talk has been going around about rebranding Asus EeePCs for a new Apple netbook but you didn't hear that from me, for fear of my life.
The iDevice team's job is to develop for the ipod, iphone, itouch, and many other portable electronics apple may release in the future. Their jobs are very interconnected with the open source team as well as the core dev team. Using firmware from random samsung devices and giving it an OSX skin the ipod stands as a shining example that infringement only applies to greasy file sharers and that the music player remains the best in market
Re:You get what you pay for? (Score:3, Funny)
Steve Jobs could through a baby into a industrial tree shredder and you would still defend him.
In his defense the baby was being kind of a dick.
Yeah we don't know what was that baby's problem.
I heard it was a crack baby, so it's an act of mercy.
Re:You get what you pay for? (Score:3, Funny)
And because this is Apple in question, fanboys would just join in thinking throwing babies into an industrial tree shedder makes them look super cool.
And the haters would come out and say "I don't want to throw babies into a shredder, I want to to shred kittens. Why won't Apple let me do this, WRYYYY ? OMG Apple is teh suxxorz."
FTFA (Score:5, Funny)
Jobs's reply--"No. Sent from my iPhone"
The big news here is that even Steve Jobs himself can't figure out how to turn off that annoying sig line.
Re:You get what you pay for? (Score:5, Funny)
Linux "just works" unless you have unsupported hardware.
So it works unless it doesn't. Who woulda thought it! Behold the miracle of open source!
Re:You get what you pay for? (Score:5, Funny)
The real difference is that with Linux it can be tricky to tell if any particular bit of hardware is supported.
With Apple it's obvious - if it's supported, it costs twice as much.
Re:You get what you pay for? (Score:3, Funny)
And the haters would come out and say "I don't want to throw babies into a shredder, I want to to shred kittens. Why won't Apple let me do this, WRYYYY ? OMG Apple is teh suxxorz."
Surely whether you want to shred kittens and/or babies it's fundamentally the same process? What you're saying is that Apple doesn't understand Object Oriented Programming.
Re:You get what you pay for? (Score:1, Funny)
Interestingly enough, this applies to closed source as well... wait... maybe it applies to ALL software. Wow.
Re:You get what you pay for? (Score:5, Funny)
unsupported hardware.
No such thing in Linux. There's "experimental driver", though.
Re:You get what you pay for? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:You get what you pay for? (Score:4, Funny)
To pull out an ancient quote:
Unix is user friendly, it's just picky about who it makes friends with.
I guess Linux just doesn't like you.
Re:You get what you pay for? (Score:3, Funny)
Wouldn't that be "You sir just sent the English Language screaming throw a tree shredder"? ;)