{"id":116,"date":"2010-01-28T18:26:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T18:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgiou.com\/?p=116"},"modified":"2023-05-24T18:12:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T17:12:16","slug":"2010-01-apples-ipad-and-missed-opportunity-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgiou.com\/?p=116","title":{"rendered":"Apple&#39;s iPad and a missed opportunity&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sqs-html-content\">\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ipad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple<\/a> announced their newest iPod &#8211; OK its a little more than an iPod but not much. The iPad represents Apple&#8217;s third tier in their iPod line and in many peoples eyes has failed to meet the expectations of many in the Mac world. People were hoping that Apple would release a tablet\/slate type computer with some level of support for pen based computing and also one which supported a tablet enhanced Mac-OS.<\/p>\n<p>My colleague Howard Carson over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstartnews.com\/2010\/01\/apples-new-ipad-everything-you-wanted.html\">Kickstartnews<\/a> summed up many peoples response and assessment of this poor showing by Apple. I use Macs and iPods on a daily basis and what I have been hopinf for is that they would lead the pack. Instead of which we have a big expensive and barely portable iPod Touch. This combined with less than complete support for web standards like Flash and other technologies and you have a recipe for disappointment. Add to this the burden of DRM and other problematic content restrictions like regional licensing and you really have to wonder &#8220;what the hell are they thinking?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Will I buy one &#8230; not likely &#8230; back to the drawing board, Apple.<\/p>\n<div class=\"iblogger-footer\"><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;\">[Posted with <a href=\"http:\/\/illuminex.com\/iBlogger\/index.html\">iBlogger<\/a> from my iPhone]<\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple announced their newest iPod &#8211; OK its a little more than an iPod but not much. The iPad represents Apple&#8217;s third tier in their iPod line and in many peoples eyes has failed to meet the expectations of many in the Mac world. People were hoping that Apple would release a tablet\/slate type computer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/georgiou.com\/?p=116\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Apple&#39;s iPad and a missed opportunity&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-ipad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":362,"href":"https:\/\/georgiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}