{"id":140,"date":"2010-04-21T15:02:16","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T15:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timbrison.wordpress.com\/?p=140"},"modified":"2010-04-21T15:02:16","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T15:02:16","slug":"ipaddy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/04\/ipaddy\/","title":{"rendered":"iPaddy"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/uktech-one.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/ipad1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-144\" title=\"ipad\" src=\"http:\/\/uktech-one.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/ipad1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"297\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, who wants an iPad?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more-->Well, not me I&#8217;m afraid. But I may well be in the minority &#8211;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I read somewhere, that Apple reckons it could ship 10 million iPads in its first year of launch.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So there are 10 million people out there who will get this gadget, for what? As far as I can tell, it&#8217;s too big for your pocket, so if you&#8217;re a bloke you&#8217;ll have to have a &#8216;man-bag&#8217; to carry it around, it appears lousy to type anything on &#8211; so replying to email, surfing etc is going to be a pain.<\/p>\n<p>So the question, really, is who is this thing for?<\/p>\n<p>You could carry a visual portfolio around &#8211; which would be good for sales folk etc. but other than that I am at a loss to see the value? Other than to keep your ever-growing collection, of redundant, shiny objects in the attic, company.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;ll probably get shot down in a ball of flame &#8211; for not preaching the gospel according to Apple.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sometimes I believe in &#8216;disconnected is good&#8217;. People should reflect on what is really healthy for humans &#8211; being connected 24\/7 has its uses, but it really isn&#8217;t going to sustain your soul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, who wants an iPad?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-tech","tag-ipad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","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=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}