{"id":1249,"date":"2006-09-12T09:01:18","date_gmt":"2006-09-12T09:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1249"},"modified":"2006-09-12T09:01:18","modified_gmt":"2006-09-12T09:01:18","slug":"iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1249","title":{"rendered":"iPhone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems doubtful that this little gadget will drop at today&#8217;s &#8220;It&#8217;s Showtime&#8221; press conference, but for the purposes of my research I&#8217;m really, really excited about <a title=\"MacNN | Apple's multifunction handheld patent\" href=\"http:\/\/www.macnn.com\/articles\/06\/09\/07\/apple.phone.patent\/\">Apple&#8217;s multifunction handheld plans<\/a>.  According to the patent, Apple&#8217;s got a combo device in the works that&#8217;s a video iPod, game device, phone and kitchen sink all <i>rolled into one.<\/i>  Wow.  I for one welcome any device that lets me stop schlepping around a whole pocketful of devices as long as the UI and storage capacity is there.  My Treo 650 is a great little doodad, but it&#8217;s a bitch and a half to get actual <i>content<\/i> onto it.  And trust me &#150; despite the fact that I really can&#8217;t talk too much about what I&#8217;m working on until it&#8217;s published, I now know way too much about this sort of thing.<br \/>\nWhat Apple <i>is<\/i> likely to drop today: an iTunes store for movies, plus maybe a new full-screen video iPod and something the rumor sites are calling &#8220;TubePort&#8221;, which is a wireless streaming video solution that gets any purchased movies from your Mac onto your TV.  C&#8217;mon Steve-O &#150; screw this bigger-screen video iPod stopgap solution and go straight for the iPhone.  You have the patent!  <i>Grab that shiny brass ring!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems doubtful that this little gadget will drop at today&#8217;s &#8220;It&#8217;s Showtime&#8221; press conference, but for the purposes of my research I&#8217;m really, really excited about Apple&#8217;s multifunction handheld plans. According to the patent, Apple&#8217;s got a combo device in the works that&#8217;s a video iPod, game device, phone and kitchen sink all rolled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4e5QR-iphone","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}