{"id":405288,"date":"2010-03-08T18:34:24","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T23:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10002997"},"modified":"2010-03-08T18:35:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T23:35:06","slug":"report-steve-jobs-says-you-wont-be-able-to-link-your-wifi-ipad-to-your-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/405288","title":{"rendered":"Report: Steve Jobs Says You Won&#8217;t Be Able To Link Your WiFi iPad To Your iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/stevjobsapple-thumb-350x204-37893.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>Anyone who currently owns an iPhone and was hoping they would be able to use it as a mobile web access point for a WiFi iPad got some bad news today, as Apple&#8217;s turtleneck-in-charge Steve Jobs has reportedly said this will not happen.<\/p>\n<p>Swedish blog <a href=\"http:\/\/slashat.se\/2010\/03\/06\/steve-jobs-exklusivt-till-slashat-se-ipad-wifi-kommer-inte-stodja-tethering-via-iphone\/\" >Slashat.se<\/a> claims they e-mailed Job directly to ask him whether or not you&#8217;d be able to tether your iPad and iPhone and received a terse &#8220;No&#8221; in reply.<\/p>\n<p>The decision of whether or not to allow iPhone tethering or not has always been the decision of the mobile carrier, with several European carriers having allowed it. Stateside, AT&#038;T has promised, but never delivered, on allowing users to tether their computers to their iPhones.<\/p>\n<p>If Jobs&#8217; pronouncement is A) true and B) a permanent decision by Apple, then users the only way to get 3G web access on your iPad is by purchasing the significantly more expensive 3G version of the product. <\/p>\n<p>This is just the latest of knocks against the iPad, which offers fewer capabilities and higher price tag than a comparable netbook.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2010\/03\/08\/no_ipad_tethering\/\" >Steve Jobs says &#8216;No&#8217; to iPhone-to-iPad tether<\/a> [The Register]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who currently owns an iPhone and was hoping they would be able to use it as a mobile web access point for a WiFi iPad got some bad news today, as Apple&#8217;s turtleneck-in-charge Steve Jobs has reportedly said this will not happen. Swedish blog Slashat.se claims they e-mailed Job directly to ask him whether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}