I want to tether my iphone… please.
Okay, to be fair, this one’s not totally to blame on Apple — AT&T can take part ownership of this suckage: The iPhone can’t be tethered to act as a high-speed modem for my laptop, and that would be more than half my reason to buy an iPhone in the first place. If I were to be one of those people who has a laptop simply to check email and browse the web, that’s one thing; I could use the iPhone just for that, and leave the laptop at home.
But that’s not me.
For the high cost of ownership (consider the cost of the voice and data plans, plus the phone itself), it’s amazing to me that Apple has the nerve to market the iPhone as a complete business solution without the tethering capability. Even my cheapo cell phone from Verizon lets me do it! For companies that supposedly are all about “the future,” Apple and AT&T both missed the boat on this one.
Could I hack the phone? Sure. But I shouldn’t need to. And heaven forbid I try to modify the phone … that would break my user agreement, so, if when one day something goes wrong with the phone, the folks at AT&T can refuse to help me out? (Actually, I can get into AT&T’s customer service record here, but that’s another topic for another post, perhaps.)
The current iteration of the iPhone is like a laptop that can’t be hooked up to an external hard drive: totally hobbled by its lack of a major feature.
I don’t get it!
Hello? Steve Jobs? Folks at AT&T? Are you listening?
September 24th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
I’ll tell you right now - Steve does not listen to anything.
September 24th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
Ah common, its not only for tether! you dont really know what Jailbreak means i think… just go ahead and jailbreak it! what are you afraid of?
Let me try to explain; Jailbreak doesnt mean Unlock, or a way to install cracked apps; is just a matter to have your full rights on your phone! So you can get things that Apple will never give you, like access to the phone OS, which is unix (yes, its unix) as root. You can install tons of open source applications and games that are being ported to the iphone; you can get them using Cydia or Installer; example of some apps i like are: Apache server with PHP5, Netatalk server (An app that runs in the background, after installed, you give your iphone the ability to act as any other macintosh on your network, because its an Open Source implementation of the AFP protocol, its auto discovered), OpenSSH server (that you can use to connect to your iphone with ssh. sftp, etc), Cycorder for video recording with audio, 3Proxy (a proxy server that you can use for share your internet with other devices), you have Veency which is a nice vnc server for your iphone, etc; all free apps. And i’m talking about the latest firmware, 2.1, all these are 100% compatible. And for doing this, you don’t need to install any cracked application, just open the firmware to give you root access and install Cydia at least; processes that are automatically made by PwnageTool in simple easy steps, and after this, if you want it back to jail, you only need to restore your iphone with itunes again.
September 26th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
OK. Who is steve jobs and why is he following me?
September 29th, 2008 at 2:03 am
He’s following you too? HA!
February 16th, 2009 at 5:29 am
Interesting article, adding it to my favourites!