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Palm Pre Does Not Get US Tethering Either
fermion writes "The Register is reporting that Palm has sent a note to the Pre Dev Wiki asking it to stop discussing tethering. Palm is worried that its US carrier partner, Sprint, is none too eager to have users tether the game-changing tetherable smart phone. While the communication was informal, not legal, the development forum is evidently eager to avoid any possibility of lawsuits, so has rapidly agreed. Perhaps, like the iPhone, the Pre is going have a vigorous underground. What is interesting is that the Pre, like the iPhone (allegedly), can be tethered outside of the US; but even those customers are being denied apparently lawful information to satisfy the US exclusive agents."
For those that don't know, tethering is when you tie your phone to your computer and hit it around the computer several times, until the phone brakes your computer screen.
Tethering is legal in all states, but some phone companies seem to object to it, so they contractually prevent you from doing this.
Now that I have an unlimited data plan, if I could just figure out a way to use my telephone as a modem for my computer, because hey, it's my property and fair use laws means I have the legal right to view it on any sized screen I want.
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you know who else was adamantly against tethering?
NASA?
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
Putting this story above a post about MS is just unfair. People are still busy commenting on the MS thread and will ignore Pre, um i mean this story.
It's cute when an iPhone user gets miffed (who would better recognize douchiness?).
The most important question is "How is this Apple's fault?" I'm sure there's a reason!
Was anyone really expecting the greedy phone companies to give us tethering?
Was anyone really expecting unlimited mobile internet to include tethering?
Does anyone really think that unlimited data for your phone and unlimited data for your laptop are really the same (or so similar) as products?
Did people with these expectations bother to ask the salespeople to clarify or, failing that, to read their service agreement?
Do people on slashdot always have to ask annoyingly rhetorical questions instead of simply stating what they think in declarative sentences?
Did I just answer my own question?
Cows ?