{"id":890,"date":"2004-10-26T14:08:33","date_gmt":"2004-10-26T14:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=890"},"modified":"2004-10-26T14:08:33","modified_gmt":"2004-10-26T14:08:33","slug":"remind-me-why-i-should-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/890","title":{"rendered":"Remind me why I should care?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So Apple released the new <a title=\"Apple - iPod Photo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ipodphoto\/\">iPod Photo<\/a>, a 40GB or 60GB iPod with a color screen and video-out for displaying photos.  Now, if it had been <i>video<\/i> it displayed (and I&#8217;m not 100% certain why it doesn&#8217;t, unless of course it&#8217;s a limitation of the video chip they can squeeze into a 6-ounce chunk of hardware), this might be cool.  You could give the finger to the MPAA and rip your DVDs, dump &#8217;em in your pocket and plug it into your friend&#8217;s AV system for easy watching.  That&#8217;d be pretty spectacular, and it&#8217;s where we&#8217;re going &#150; but we&#8217;re definitely not there yet, and for $600 I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m interested in this interim step.<br \/>\nFor $600 I&#8217;d rather buy a Treo 650, then throw in some extra cash for a Bluetooth headset and a couple of gigabyte SD cards to carry around my favorite songs.  It&#8217;s weird, but I seriously suspect that Palm is currently in much better standing as the keystone element in the Personal Area Network than Apple.  If Apple releases a new Newton, or adds Bluetooth to the iPod, or adds a phone to the iPod, or even just frickin&#8217; buys Palm, they&#8217;ve got a shot at the next generation of gadgetry, but if they&#8217;re going to be so conservative with their iPod capabilities, that sky-high stock price is going to come crashing back down to earth <i>real<\/i> fast.<br \/>\nAll right, back to work&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Apple released the new iPod Photo, a 40GB or 60GB iPod with a color screen and video-out for displaying photos. Now, if it had been video it displayed (and I&#8217;m not 100% certain why it doesn&#8217;t, unless of course it&#8217;s a limitation of the video chip they can squeeze into a 6-ounce chunk of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-em","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890","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=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}