In his hundred-word inquiry to Steve Jobs as to whether or not the iPad will tether to the iPhone, the Swedish DJ Jezper Söderlund started by saying, “I’ll keep it short.” Steve’s response kept it really short: “No.” Updated: Is Jobs wrong?
I’m always tickled when there’s a report of Steve Jobs responding personally to someone’s e-mail. I imagine him sitting on the can, flicking idly on his iPhone, and finally deciding to open that massive folder of his inbox where all the e-mail from the plebs gets redirected. Oh, what’s this?
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
Whether or not Steve knew that Jezper was a Swedish DJ of some acclaim, the king couldn’t be bothered to type more than a single word before he rose up off his throne.
No.
Sent from my iPhone
What do we learn from this? 1. You won’t be able to skimp on the iPad data plan by tethering to your iPhone. 2. There’s still the outside chance that someday “sjobs@apple.com” will pop up before your eyes, delivering a disappointingly terse (but chill-inducing nevertheless) message directly to your inbox. [9 to 5 Mac]
Update: Assuming his response is the real deal, we’re wondering if Steve might be a little bit confused about how his precious gadgets actually work. The iPhone officially supports tethering, just not in the United States. But we can’t see any reason why the iPhone shouldn’t be able to share its connection with the iPad on international carriers that do support tethering (seeing as DJ Jezper is from Sweden, he could well be a costumer of one of them). In any event, it seems like Steve’s answer isn’t only short but perhaps just plain wrong.
Lachlan N
Monday, March 8, 2010 at 8:27 AMSTEVE JOBS PLEASE READ THIS!!!!
Why are you leaving Australia in the dark, for our population like half of us own your iphones and we have given you great sales through the last years and have been paying full high prices for your products.
By not telling us our price and release date and pushing back by god knows how long, your really pissing off australia – and while we a re a small country, we are still a very important country
matt
Monday, March 8, 2010 at 11:13 AMlol really? we’re important? we only have like 20 million people… there are suburbs in city’s around the world that have more people than Australia! why else do you think they charge us so much? because they don’t care if we don’t buy. on a more practical note, the reason that generally goes round for this type of thing is that, due to the highly volatile Aussie dollar, they won’t release a price until launch (this is bullshit of course.)
as for tethering, well, if you wanted some decent, logical, cost effective features, you should have looked elsewhere. I doubt even the apple fans are surprised by this. In fairness though, it would probably be more the telcos than Apple.
Jack C
Monday, March 8, 2010 at 11:01 AMBecause steve jobs has nothing better to do than read gozmodo australia…
Wok
Monday, March 8, 2010 at 1:02 PMYou imagine him on the toilet?
pat
Monday, March 8, 2010 at 3:17 PMahh, i see he double tapped the spacebar…