{"id":47,"date":"2007-06-28T14:58:52","date_gmt":"2007-06-28T19:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/28\/iwhat\/"},"modified":"2007-06-28T14:58:52","modified_gmt":"2007-06-28T19:58:52","slug":"iwhat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/iwhat\/","title":{"rendered":"iWhat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/iphone\/\">iPhone<\/a>.\u00a0 It does everything except bake cookies.\u00a0 And they&#8217;re probably working on that.\u00a0 But what practical use could I find for it?\u00a0 If I buy an iPhone what other object that currently occupies space in my house\/pocket\/purse\/car\/etc. can I get rid of?\u00a0 I get it &#8211; it does<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Internet<\/li>\n<li>phone<\/li>\n<li>pictures<\/li>\n<li>video<\/li>\n<li>music<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Can I use it to write documents?\u00a0 Keep track of my finances?\u00a0 Record cassette tapes and digitize them?\u00a0 Can I have it record programs from my TiVo?\u00a0 Or is it just another gadget someone put together so that I have more to do and less time to myself to focus on that which is important to me?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I get the feeling that the iPhone is just another iProduct being created on the (highly successful) tails of the iPod and geared to all the kids that want\/need (how sad is it that some kids really do need these things to feel good about themselves) the latest iProduct from Mac to feel good.\u00a0 When they develop a phone that can do more than make a call well, then I will consider dropping one of my household appliances to replace it with the new phone.\u00a0 Until then, there&#8217;s no need.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iPhone.\u00a0 It does everything except bake cookies.\u00a0 And they&#8217;re probably working on that.\u00a0 But what practical use could I find for it?\u00a0 If I buy an iPhone what other object that currently occupies space in my house\/pocket\/purse\/car\/etc. can I get rid of?\u00a0 I get it &#8211; it does Internet phone pictures video music Can I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[26,28,55],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-computers","tag-culture","tag-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s3aAvV-iwhat","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}