01.05.10
tethers
More iSlate speculation: Apple will have to figure out tethering before they launch a tablet/slate device.
Why? If Apple is going to launch a mass-market general-purpose tablet device, it is going to need network access. Very few consumers are going to be willing to accept that they have to pay for a second data plan. Apple won’t launch such a device if it can only tether to non-Apple phones!
So, if Apple were to launch a game-changing tablet device, it will have to tether to the iPhone. Tethering was supposed to be available on the iPhone by now, but of course it isn’t. Maybe we’ll see AT&T supporting only this new tablet tethered to iPhones, which would at least permit Apple to hold a fig leaf in front of AT&T when they offer tethering to other phones.