For a moment there they got my attention with that word "Free WiFi to everyone". I paused and wondered how? I had a confused a view about the possibility of one man's imagination and dreams.
According to yahoo, stating "according to Mossberg, Jobs said he understood the need
for security, but he was determined to figure out a way to make
free,
safe, Wi-Fi sharing from homes and small local businesses not only
possible, but common. He even told me that he planned to get other
companies involved, in a sort of consortium, to make this happen.
“His idea was to get as many
wireless router makers as possible to build in a ‘guest network’ option —
essentially a second Wi-Fi network, securely walled off from the rest
of the home network, and with its own name. Then, he hoped that the
industry would encourage people to share their bandwidth with strangers
via these guest networks. That way, a smartphone user could walk around,
moving from one Wi-Fi hotspot to another, without logging in — much
like people using cellular data move from one cell tower to another.”
Though more routers today do
allow for a separate “guest” channel, Mossberg admits that he has “no
idea whether this stemmed from Steve Jobs’ idea.”
Walt Mossberg, is a tech journalist
known to have been close with Jobs, the Apple boss’s idea wasn’t for his
company to foot the bill for a free, country-wide WiFi utopia. Instead,
back in the first days of the original iPhone (2007), Jobs envisioned a
scenario closer to what we have now: WiFi routers in commercial and
residential communities openly sharing Internet access to passersby.
In a recent piece for the technology website Re/code,
Mossberg gives his account of a conversation he had with Jobs,
explaining that the late Apple CEO was frustrated with the limited
capabilities of cellular networks in 2007. Jobs knew that the iPhone
thrived on WiFi, and he wanted all iPhone owners to have access to
speedier wireless data all the time.
So if all these were actually true and yahoo confirmed the claims of Mr Mossberg why then did they say he (Jobs) wanted to give it to everyone? instead of just America or rather, American iPhone users? even though yahoo stated it, it still didn't change the fact that 'everyone' is a pronoun that is not supposed to be used in the article when the target country is just America !
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