{"id":2476,"date":"2010-05-25T16:20:26","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T20:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=2476"},"modified":"2016-07-07T09:38:33","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T13:38:33","slug":"simultaneous-voice-and-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/25\/simultaneous-voice-and-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Simultaneous Voice and Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/2010\/05\/25\/whither-verizon\/\">Matt Drance<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/2010\/05\/25\/whither-verizon\/\"><p>Think about the number of iPhone commercials you&rsquo;ve seen that demonstrate using apps while a call is active. Now imagine those commercials vanishing because the iPhone is on Verizon. The ability to&mdash;wait for it&mdash;multitask while on the phone has been a critical selling point of the iPhone experience since the iPhone 3G launch almost two years ago.&#8230;Apple is not the kind of company that takes huge steps backward just to win a few more customers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n<p>Everyone seems to be making this argument, but I just don&rsquo;t buy it. This is not a huge step backwards. I bet that the average iPhone user doesn&rsquo;t know about this differentiating feature and doesn&rsquo;t surf much, if at all, while on calls. Verizon makes potentially <em>millions<\/em> of customers available to Apple, customers who won&rsquo;t miss this feature because they never had it. The existing AT&amp;T customers would lose nothing. If iPhone users ever do have a choice of carriers, AT&amp;T will do the work for Apple in making it clear that this is a network feature rather than a device feature.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Drance: Think about the number of iPhone commercials you&rsquo;ve seen that demonstrate using apps while a call is active. Now imagine those commercials vanishing because the iPhone is on Verizon. The ability to&mdash;wait for it&mdash;multitask while on the phone has been a critical selling point of the iPhone experience since the iPhone 3G launch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2476"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15080,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476\/revisions\/15080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}