Jobs Says No Tethering iPad To iPhone

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."

Comments

Re:You get what you pay for?

[nine-times]

Jobs, or AT&T?

Re:This is why I'll never own anything apple.

[Degro]

Apple as of late has really rekindled my appreciation for Windows on my personal computers. Sell me the hardware and then let me do what the f**k I want. I'm just waiting for the next major version of OSX brings in the wonderful strangle hold of the app store too...

Re:This is why I'll never own anything apple.

[indiechild]

I'm not trying to troll you or anything here, but in what ways was the Apple II so open that the current Macs aren't? And just to be clear, we're talking about computers, not the "appliances" like iPods or iPhones.

Steve Jobs is an industrial design geek. He sees the iPhone/iPod touch/iPad as appliances, not full-blown computers, so to him they don't need to be open and hackable. In fact, to Jobs, as appliances it's desirable to limit them and lock them down -- it's less likely to confuse novice users and they can't break things as easily. Despite what some foolish pundits say, Macintosh computers aren't going to be locked down in the same way. But what we will see in the future is more and more "appliances" being sold, which will supplant traditional computers. Eventually, only the hardcore geeks and tinkerers will be using "computers" as we know them.

Re:You get what you pay for?

[Sandbags]

Jobs can not confirm iPad to iPhone tethering officially because AT&T does not allow tethering the iPhone at all. When this changes, the story will change. This is not news, this is Apple trying not to get sued for promising a feature they are well aware that user contracts forbid clearly and openly.

Its possible there's an underlying dock-dock connection physical incompatibility, and that is is in fact not possible to crossover connect to device as such, but bluetooth tethering should still be completely feasible.

I can only see the ISP as the intervening authority here, not Apple.