“According to a pretty legitimate-looking email thread from one of our readers, Steve Jobs may have responded to complaints that, since the pulling of NetShare from the App Store, iPhone-to-laptop tethering is impossible without jailbreaking one’s phone,” Mark Wilson reports for Gizmodo.
MacDailyNews Note (added: 9:52am): Tethering in this case means using your iPhone as a modem to connect your Mac – or heaven help you, Windows PC – to the Internet.
According to the rumor, an iPhone user sent Apple an email stating that since AT&T offers data plans for BlackBerry that include tethering for an additional $30 per month, he’d be willing to pay for such a service for his iPhone. And, supposedly, Steve Jobs responded via email, “We agree, and are discussing it with ATT.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Bill” for the heads up.]
MacDailyNews Take: Roger’s already offers iPhone tethering in Canada, so it’s possible that AT&T wants to add tethering in the U.S. Perhaps AT&T first wanted to work on getting their network more optimized for the millions upon millions of iPhones hitting it before they will add an official iPhone tethering plan?
Senator Larry Craig: I have never tethered anyone. No, I am not gay nor am I a bi-tetherer. Tethering is often confused with people like me who have an unusually wide stance.
“Barak”
Holy crap. If you’re going to troll, learn how to spell. How high are you right now? And didn’t your mommy say that you can’t surf the internet until you stop failing your remedial classes?
won’t tethering make the network even more congested leading to more dropped calls?
I’m glad to hear that tethering might be possible with the iPhone. We’ve been hearing complaints about the iPhone’s BlueTooth capabilities for months now. It would be great to finally see iPhones able to tether with Macs; a natural fit.
As someone who only has a dial-up account I’ve heard that tethering is a lot faster connection to the Internet. You’re already paying for the data, might as well use it like this if you want to.
Ted Stevens: How do you tether such a large series of tubes into such a small device?
Sorry, I am so excited that I have duped so many of you to support me in my grab for power.
I will make it up to you by offering to smoke a joint with my good friend William Ayres.
Afterwards, we can go to church and see my mentor, Reverend Wright.
After that, we can go hang with my friends Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Islam will rule!
(Get used to it!)
I would be happy if I could just Bluetooth sync my iPhone with my Mac, let alone tether.
Tom Cruise: “you don’t know the history of tethering; I do.
Ed Colligan: “Tethering guys are not going to just figure this out . . .”
Michael Dell: Tethering should just shut down and give the money back to the people.
Bloomberg: Tethering is dead.
Mike Lanman: The new Verizon Tetherer is going to kill the iPhone.
Lets have a great Friday!
Ellen DeGeneres: I’m tethered to Portia de Rossi right now.
Donald Trump: It’s not tethered. It’s real hair.
Britney Spears: I had to cut the tether on those kids, y’all. My fans need me.
Bill Gates: Internet Explorer is not tied to Windows. It’s tethered.
McCain picks Sarah Palin to become first woman U.S. Vice President.
Game over.
Son of a bitch, I hate election years.
Upon learning that John McCain had picked Sarah Palin to be his running mate, Barak Hussein Obama said simply, “Oh shit. Give me a fuckin’ cigarette. Now!”
Screw “Apple and AT&T;.”
In the parlance of the cell phone industry, “plan” is a synonym for “RIDICULOUS CHARGES.”
It seems that every single day Apple finds a new way to erode their once high level of respect.
Adding charges to what you’re already paying for puts Apple squarely in the garbage bin of service companies along with cell phone companies, cable and satellite companies, etc.
It’s nickel and dime time at Apple.
Tethering is very similar to S&M;.
“Barak Hussein Obama”
Wow. The same illiterate troll is still hallucinating. Aren’t you late for gym class?
“Son of a bitch, I hate election years.”
Cheer up. It’s only going to get a lot worse. Someone must have handed out MDN’s url on the short bus.
Yes, it’s over for Obama!
“Yes, it’s over for Obama!”
Because Apple and AT&T are prepping an iPhone tethering plan? Did you forget your medication AGAIN?
“Someone must have handed out MDN’s url on the short bus.”
The way things have been going here recently, it seems like an awfully long bus actually.
John Kerry: I was secretly tethering in Cambodia with the CIA. They gave me my own copy of NetShare. I still have it. I have it to this day.
MacDave, you seem to be correct. It is amazing how many people will believe anything they hear and then spout off as though it is the gospel.
If thought is at all possible for the blithering idiot, how does he equate Obama embracing Islam and then blast him for the comments of his long time Christian minister? If someone can straighten the logic give a guy a hand here.
” . . . how does he equate Obama embracing Islam and then blast him for the comments of his long time Christian minister?”
He inhales paint thinner and steals drugs from his parent’s medicine cabinet. Brain damage is a bitch.
I love my iPhone but damn if there isn’t a lot of nickel and diming with the 3G upgrade. Data plan price increased. Text messaging, yeah that’s extra. Tethering, yeah pony up some more.
A tether with a red vinyl collar…
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