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by jsz0 5859 days ago
Apple is focusing on the things they think are most important for their customers. Wireless tethering via SmartPhone is a new feature for people so the demand is pretty low right now. It's not clear that it's the ideal way to deliver tethering due to the battery overhead. If you start with 5-6 hours of continuos 3G usage adding wireless tethering is going to bring you down to the <4 hour mark. That badly breaks the sunrise-to-sunset usage most people demand. I think we'll continue to see standalone mifi style devices with their own battery be a preferred solution.
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> Wireless tethering via SmartPhone is a new feature for people so the demand is pretty low right now

it's also something the iPhone has had since iPhoneOS 3.0 a year ago, via bluetooth...