Swedish tech site Slashat.se reportedly sent an email to Apple CEO Steve Jobs asking him this simple question “Will the wifi-only version somehow support tethering thru my iPhone?” Steve Jobs’ reply was a simple “no” and the email was sent from his iPhone instead of the iPad.
On a brighter note, Jobs has confirmed to GCN that the iPad will run for 10 hours on a single charge.
As I was finishing this column, I e-mailed him to say that I didn’t mean to imply that he was lying during his iPad presentation, as several people accused me of in their comments. People make presentations written by marketers all the time that are not 100 percent truthful, and it doesn’t make them liars. I used the normal, publicly available e-mail address for him, not any of the special ways we press folks can sometimes get access. I figured that would be the end of it.
Surprisingly, in about two hours, Jobs responded. You could tell it was him, too. I suspect that people must scan that e-mail box and forward certain things over to him. There was even a typo in the reply, as if he were in a hurry. I had also mentioned that one of the comments submitted to my original article had been signed with his name.
Jobs’ response: “Sorry, [it] wasn’t me. And, yes, we are getting 10 hours in 1.5 pounds.”
I guess we’ll find out come April 3rd.
