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Steve Jobs on iPad tethering with iPhone: "No."
It goes almost without saying that a lot of the people who buy Apple's new iPad will already have Apple's iPhone. Maybe you were thinking, "Well, since I've got an iPhone already, why pay for two data plans? There has to be some way to tether the iPad using the iPhone, right?" According to Steve Jobs, the answer is a big, fat NO.
Jobs responded to an email from Swedish DJ Jezper Söderlund, who asked:
And his answer was just one word. No. (Sent from his iPhone, of course.)Will the wifi-only version somehow support tethering thru my iPhone?
Two devices, based on the same OS, with already built-in technology to share one data plan suggests a secondary contract could possibly be redundant.
From the look of your keynote, where the iPad sits well between my MacBook Pro and my iPhone, I was hoping the three of them could interact as seamless as possible.
We'll have to wait and see whether intrepid iPhone hackers will be able to change that answer when it comes to jailbroken phones, but Jobs seems set on the model of a separate data plan for each device.
[via Engadget]
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Subscribe to commentsSteve F.Mar 6th 2010 9:44AM
What a crook.
master811Mar 6th 2010 9:56AM
Did we really expect it to, considering Apple's past...?
kcdk99Mar 6th 2010 11:20AM
If Apple allows tethering on the wifi-only iPad there would be no additional revenue for them. Instead on the 3G iPad, they can charge $130 more for a 3G chip which costs less than $10. Of course, part of the $130 may go to a subsidy for AT&T, but I don't see the subsidy for AT&T being that large, if any, knowing how Apple works and considering that AT&T may have been satisfied enough just to get the opportunity to be the "default" 3G provider for the iPad.
DeoWulfMar 6th 2010 12:24PM
It makes me laugh when I realize that some people will still get both.
JeremyMar 6th 2010 2:07PM
I thought the ipad was useless before...now it's an additional fee fore useless
adamMar 6th 2010 3:04PM
And with some other companies offering 3G "wi-fi" access through their phones, some users who go the iPad route might be better off trading in their iPhones for some other carrier that charges way less for the service and will allow them to use their ipads via the cheaper non-iPhone cell service!
daromeMar 6th 2010 9:22PM
What do you expect . Steve Jobs loves Steve Jobs not consumers- two plan = extra bucks to his pocket through AT&T- BOYCOTT APPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ogmanMar 7th 2010 5:35AM
Oh c'mon people, surely you have a few more dollars to give to your masters at AT&T and Apple! Quit whining and pay up!
h0miMar 8th 2010 1:25AM
No tether, no ipad. Not interested as long as Ive got a phone and a data plan that duplicates the ipad functionality.
BradMar 18th 2010 8:47AM
Ok Steve. You're just giving me another reason to pick up an Android-based device when my 3GS finally dies or becomes (completely) obsolete. Because I sure as hell am not paying for two separate data plans... there's a reason I chose "unlimited" for my iPhone.
The only market Apple is really fishing for with the 3g/data plan model of the iPad are the folks who haven't picked up the iPhone yet... you know, the people who don't care for Apple to begin with.
ChaseMar 8th 2010 11:30PM
I'm pretty sure Apple will find a way to allow it later as a way of boosting interest. "Oh, I had an iPhone and that was the only thing that was keeping me from buying an iPad. But now I can get one. THANKS, APPLE!" Thumbs WAY up.
P.S. Eat up Martha.