Apple's iPhoneware update snuffs tethering hack

Stupid is as stupid does

What is up with Reg and Apple people anyway?

A Boi at least in American slang is usually teen or tweeny girl who like to dress andact masculine though she may not necessarily be gay.

So I suppose the RegDik who thought up fanboi must have lost this in translation.

@Eduard Coli

No-one gives a shit - it's Apple.

Honestly...

I'm sure the rest of the mobile world has taken tethering as an unspoken function for at least the last 5 years... Apple are allowing some very nasty "features", or lack there of, to creep into the mobile market place.

What the fuck is wrong with these people?

Seriously? What is it with mobile networks and hardware vendors?

The phone can do all this stuff already so why this continual knobbling of it and then the drip feeding of 'features' just as soon as they cook up an additional tariff to charge you through the arse for it? I know deep down the answer is the dripping-roast that is continual monetization but it just continues to mystify me how a shitty phoone can hold people in this Svengali-like thrall.

Good on the hackers for letting iPhone users realise the true potential of their handsets (shitty as they may be) before AT&T deign they may. Give me an N97, a decent data plan and stick the iPhone up your arse.

ok..

how about FanBOYYZZZ, as in BOYZ IN DA HOOD...

Anyhow, in order to let the flame wars begin, my Blackjack can do nearly everything your iPhone can do and I can tether... since like 2 years ago...bluetooth tether too....

This is what happens when people LET these monopolistic carrier/phone vendor deals to go on. Every thing is too tightly controlled. I bet when you are finally able to tether, AT&T will know not only that you were tethering, but what sites you visited, what computer you used to tether, your first born's circumcision status, etc.

When I tether, they don't even know, and never will. IPhone and AT&T for the fail!

In defense of RegDik

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fanboi

Paris, because I believe she can do no wrong.

So why would we want to upgrade to 3.1?

So apple release a brand new phone with a brand new version of their OS and then they release an OS update one month later that knobbles features of the previous update.

I think I'll pass on the upgrade and continue using tethering - for free thankyouverymuch.

iphone users aren't bothered

iphone users generally don't care for stuff like tethering (over usb/bluetooth/wifi), multitasking, or filesystem access (like copying documents over usb/bt/wifi). Before you dispute my generalization I'd like to point out the wild success of the device, without these "boring work/productivity related" stuff.

Who cares that much about tehering?

AT&T still needs to turn on MMS. The tethering issue should be the least of their concerns right now.

@ EvilGav 1

What he said. Chisellers!

Just goes to show...

What you get when you buy an overpriced, locked down, proprietary device designed exclusively for crazed fanboys with too much money to spend.

@Will 22

Have to say, agree 100%.

My variation on what you have written would be that as the user, purchase, I own the device and as such, it is up to me which way I use it.

It is not a rental device it is a purchase. The fact that the Network may have subsidised it to zero does not negate the purchase element: it is still my hardware.

For as long as this sort of shenanigans continues, I'll buy my Nokia sim free, unlocked and un-latched so I can shove in which ever sim I want, where ever I happen to be.

Done.

P.