{"id":192838,"date":"2024-07-12T11:24:47","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T16:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/apple-could-reinvent-group-audio-chat-with-no-cell-or-wifi-needed"},"modified":"2024-07-12T11:24:47","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T16:24:47","slug":"apple-could-reinvent-group-audio-chat-with-no-cell-or-wifi-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/apple-could-reinvent-group-audio-chat-with-no-cell-or-wifi-needed","title":{"rendered":"Apple could reinvent group audio chat with no cell or WiFi needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/apple-could-reinvent-group-audio-chat-with-no-cell-or-wifi-needed3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apple is developing technology that would allow any number of willing people in close proximity to start an audio chat, using only an iPhone and a headset like <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/inside\/airpods\" title=\"AirPods\">AirPods<\/a>, with no WiFi or cell service needed.<\/p>\n<p>Instantaneous communication like the Walkie-Talkie feature on the <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/inside\/apple-watch\" title=\"Apple Watch\">Apple Watch<\/a> would be possible but with groups of people instead of individuals.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the Walkie-Talkie feature, this new technology would eliminate the roundtrip to Apple\u2019s cloud servers, a step that makes Walkie-Talkie unreliable at times. Also, unlike Walkie-Talkie, this would allow groups of willing people to talk to each other simultaneously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple is developing technology that would allow any number of willing people in close proximity to start an audio chat, using only an iPhone and a headset like AirPods, with no WiFi or cell service needed. Instantaneous communication like the Walkie-Talkie feature on the Apple Watch would be possible but with groups of people instead [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}