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."
Re:You get what you pay for? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:When they came for the iPhone users (Score:4, Informative)
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)
Re:Forged Headers? (Score:5, Informative)
1) someone is hacking Steve Jobs incoming email and read the question and replied
2) someone guessed that Steve Jobs was asked this questions and then coincidentally spoofed an answer to person they correctly guessed asked it
3) Steve Jobs replied.
number 1 is big news - Steve Jobs email is not secure!!!!
number 2 is conspiracy theory material
number 3 confirms what Steve Jobs said in a pcmag article 2 days ago and seems the logically obvious choice.
Re:This is why I'll never own anything apple. (Score:2, Informative)
Maybe because the devices his company produces do what most people want, and do those things really well. Not everyone want to go digging under the hood. Most people really don't care about what is happening under the hood, they just want it to happen. For example I will be buying a 3G iPad when they come out with the express idea of playing with it for a month before giving it to my grandmother.
She needs something to replace the email-only station that she has, and I think that the simplicity of troubleshooting ("press the big button if you get in trouble"), and the single-midedness of doing one task at a time will mean that she might just venture out beyond the email-only realm she has been in. With a computer the first step to get to email is simply too much, and it does not matter Windows, MacOS, or linux for that statement. But with an iPad there is a chace that she will be tempted to view the photo sharing sites that my parrents and aunt have setup.
And my fiencée has already said that she might use it to replace her Windows notebook that has been nothing but a headache in the year she has had it (a couple of bad design choices by HP have caused real problems and it has already had two warentee issues). For the most part she just does email and web surfing. The only thing she was worried about was that she might not be able to save PDF reciepts from the bills she pays online (a legitimate worry).
As to myself, I am a professional geek and I specialize in MacOS. While I dig pretty deep in the desktop version of MacOS X, and do some lite programming (mostly on the heavy side of scripting), I have never been tempted to jailbreak my iPhone, or dig into the iPhone SDK. It is an appliance for me, and I am happy that it just does the job I want it to do.
There's an app for that... (Score:2, Informative)
Handy little utility to turn your iPhone into a wi-fi hotspot so you can tether any wi-fi enabled device, including the iPad.
(Disclaimer: I haven't used it personally, but it comes highly recommended.)
Re:Isn't this anti-trust / tying / anti-competitiv (Score:3, Informative)
If you happen to be running an open source OS on your phone, you get to pay 3x the amount you'd pay for THE EXACT SAME SERVICE if your phone ran Symbian.
I don't think that's true. If you buy an Android phone, they force you to buy an unlimited text and data package; but this costs the same as adding unlimited text and data to any of their regular packages. And, if you bring your own Android phone, TMobile isn't going to know, or care, about it: they'll charge you the same for data access as they would charge anyone else.
Re:You get what you pay for? (Score:5, Informative)
At least with Linux you can code the feature in. Same with Windows (Mobile). Even with goddamn Symbian.
$60 a month for 5GB limited 3G plan with some additional device? Jeez. I pay around $20 a month for 1 Mbit/s unlimited 3G and they happily send extra sim cards if you want to use the same contract with extra devices and no bullshit clauses about tethering etc.
Re:You get what you pay for? (Score:4, Informative)
http://www.macrumors.com/2010/01/27/ipad-sdk-3-2-details-external-display-file-sharing-system-no-multitasking/ [macrumors.com]
Apple has unleashed iPhone OS 3.2 SDK to developers today to prepare for the launch of the Apple iPad. The new iPhone OS 3.2 only runs on the iPad device and will not run on the iPhone or iPod Touch.
- No Multitasking. Only one application runs at a time according to official documentation.
Re:You get what you pay for? (Score:3, Informative)
Since T-Mobile changed their rate plans, I managed to upgrade two lines to unlimited data/Blackberry email for only an additional $10/month (and no contract extension to boot). And yeah, they don't give a damn if it's tethered to something or not. I think this is the exception to "you get what you pay for," unless people really are intending to pay that much to be screwed.
Re:Not any phone. (Score:3, Informative)
Well, my 3 year old Nokia (S40) can do it via Bluetooth, and so can any other S40 Nokia that I've seen.
Re:You get what you pay for? (Score:3, Informative)
The biggest problem with Linux is it doesn't "just work". It in fact often "doesn't work" unless you go hunting for patches . . .
he, he
Roll up! Roll up! chuck that ole 2010 in the bin and welcome to version 1.1 of 1993!
Re:You get what you pay for? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:You get what you pay for? (Score:4, Informative)
They're a click on "install" and a password away. Make sure she knows that when the computer asks for a password, it's asking to do something that could seriously screw things up, and should only be done with expert help.
Besides, you do know that the official nVidia driver is available in Ubuntu through the "Restricted Drivers" window, right? These get updated with the kernel, so this shouldn't even be a problem.