Steve Jobs Confirms No iPad/iPhone Tethering
March 7th, 2010
A Swedish man and Apple fan took the initiative to email Steve Jobs about tethering together the iPhone to the iPad, and received one of Jobs’ notoriously curt replies. Jezper Söderlund asked:
I’ll keep it short.
I’m Jezper from Sweden, a long time Apple fan, currently about to replace the very last computer at home with a brand spanking new iMac i7. I’m also awaiting the release of the iPad. However, I have one question:
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.
All the best,
Jezper Söderlund
To which Jobs replied:
No.
Sent from my iPhone
So much for that!
[via 9 to 5 Mac]
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