{"id":685794,"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.com\/index\/685794","title":{"rendered":"Report: Steve Jobs Says You Won&#8217;t Be Able To Link Your WiFi iPad To Your iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/stevjobsapple-thumb-350x204-37893.jpg?w=780\">         <\/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":3605,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-685794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Spc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}