{"id":803,"date":"2009-09-03T18:32:11","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T22:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=803"},"modified":"2009-09-03T14:35:37","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T18:35:37","slug":"att-may-be-happy-to-end-exclusive-iphone-deal-with-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/09\/03\/att-may-be-happy-to-end-exclusive-iphone-deal-with-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"AT&amp;T may be happy to end exclusive iPhone deal with Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/henry-blodget-bandwidth-guzzling-iphones-are-crushing-atts-cell-network-2009-9\" target=\"_blank\">Henry Blodget<\/a>, AT&amp;T may be willing to see the end of their exclusive deal with Apple to support the iPhone, as the traffic is &#8220;Crushing AT&amp;T&#8217;s Cell Network&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Performance issues will likely hasten the end of AT&amp;T&#8217;s exclusive on the iPhone<\/strong> (which is scheduled to end next year anyway).  At this point, it would actually be in AT&amp;T&#8217;s interest to spread the network demand around.<\/li>\n<li><strong>AT&amp;T will have to spend a lot of money and rush to upgrade the network before its reputation gets any worse<\/strong> (a third of people who don&#8217;t buy iPhones don&#8217;t buy them because of AT&amp;T)<\/li>\n<li><strong>This is GREAT news for the future of the mobile web<\/strong>: Now that the iPhone has created a compelling mobile online experience, mobile usage is finally exploding.  This is already leading to the growth of a whole new industry based on mobile apps and gadgets.<\/li>\n<li><strong>This is great news for the iPhone<\/strong>: If people are willing to put up with performance this lousy, it shows how much they love their iPhones.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Henry Blodget, AT&amp;T may be willing to see the end of their exclusive deal with Apple to support the iPhone, as the traffic is &#8220;Crushing AT&amp;T&#8217;s Cell Network&#8221;: Performance issues will likely hasten the end of AT&amp;T&#8217;s exclusive on the iPhone (which is scheduled to end next year anyway). At this point, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,27],"class_list":["post-803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-iphone"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-cX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":805,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions\/805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}