{"id":1097,"date":"2014-05-29T12:50:51","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T12:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uktech.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2014-05-29T15:13:22","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T15:13:22","slug":"iphone-users-everywhere-should-read-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/05\/iphone-users-everywhere-should-read-this\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone Users Everywhere Should Read This!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was getting rather tired of hearing from iPhone fans the other day, so just wondered what the rest of the world thought of iPhones&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/screenshot_11.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pic aligncenter wp-image-1098 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/screenshot_11.png\" alt=\"screenshot_11\" width=\"737\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/screenshot_11.png 737w, https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/screenshot_11-300x166.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 737px) 100vw, 737px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes, they are really nice devices. Great design, ergonomics and operating system.<\/p>\n<p>But they are also very expensive.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0They have become the shining jewelry of the tech world &#8211; offering very little else<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not saying they aren&#8217;t a good product, but like \u00a310,000 Gucci handbags, I think they have had their day.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Simply because, spending huge sums of money on a gadget with a lifespan of only a few years, is a huge waste of resource. I spent less than the cost of an iPhone on my bicycle &#8211; which has lasted more than a decade and keeps me fit and healthy as a by product.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So, in conclusion, iPhones are great and really useful.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We just don&#8217;t need to evangelise and put them on some enormous aspirational altar.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was getting rather tired of hearing from iPhone fans the other day, so just wondered what the rest of the world thought of iPhones&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-tech","category-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1232,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions\/1232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}