Re:Daring Fireball: The iPhone 3G
by notauser on Wednesday October 08, 2008 @03:48PM
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Indeed. One of the features he hypes most
"If Apple can build a feature like this into the iPhone itself, it will be a smash hit feature, and, if it were something that only worked with Mac OS X, yet another impetus for iPhone/iPod users to switch from Windows."
is 3G tethering, deliberately removed from the App Store by Apple, and already available to Windows, Linux and OS X users of any old free-on-contract 3G Nokia.
Even Ubuntu (in 8.10) includes support for 3G modems, which should give you some idea how old hat they are :)
"If Apple can build a feature like this into the iPhone itself, it will be a smash hit feature, and, if it were something that only worked with Mac OS X, yet another impetus for iPhone/iPod users to switch from Windows."
is 3G tethering, deliberately removed from the App Store by Apple, and already available to Windows, Linux and OS X users of any old free-on-contract 3G Nokia.
Even Ubuntu (in 8.10) includes support for 3G modems, which should give you some idea how old hat they are :)