{"id":2626,"date":"2011-01-26T00:01:25","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T08:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=2626"},"modified":"2011-01-25T22:05:21","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T06:05:21","slug":"thoughts-and-suggestions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=2626","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts and Suggestions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s yet another random blog post as I wallow in the time between urgent projects.
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\nWhy Are There Tablets?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Certainly, Apple justified the Tablet market with the iPad. There were Tablet PCs before then. I updated my Laptops For Dummies<\/em> with Tablet PC coverage a few years back.<\/p>\n

Tablet PCs are basically laptops where you can twist the screen around to write on the thing. It’s basically Windows, but with a pen (or your finger) as an input device. There was no attempt, as there is with the iPad, to make a whole new mobile computing paradigm \u2014 which is probably why Tablet PCs sold so dismally.<\/p>\n

Still, I like my Tablet PC. It’s good for taking notes in a meeting, and ideal for use on an airplane when the idiot in front of me folds back his seat.<\/p>\n

But the iPad? What’s appealing?<\/p>\n

It’s a mobile device, like a big phone, but not a phone. It does things your computer does, but it’s not a computer. The iPad sells like hell, and there are a swarm of competitors coming out this year and probably for years to come. So why bother? I mean, isn’t the iPad yet another gizmo to carry around?<\/p>\n

Seriously: Why bother?<\/p>\n

Buy Your Music on CDs<\/strong><\/p>\n

My son recently got a new PC. The problem: His iTunes was on his old PC and none of the songs transferred over, specifically the songs he paid for at the iTunes store. That sucks.<\/p>\n

We’ve been able to pull off some of the songs by burning CDs, but that’s a cumbersome process. That leads me to an observation: Why buy digital music at all?<\/p>\n

When you buy a CD, you own the CD. You have it forever, as long as you take care of it. Plus, you can always burn the CD to your computer’s music library. You can do it over and over and over; no digital rights management (DRM).<\/p>\n

The Verizon iPhone<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yes, three years after you would have bought a Verizon iPhone, one is finally being released. Yeah! But you’re being really silly if you buy one now.<\/p>\n

First, the iPhone being sold by Verizon is the iPhone 4. Sometime this summer, probably in July, Apple will announce the iPhone 5.<\/p>\n

Second, the iPhone 5 will probably be a 4G phone, have real-time video chat over the digital cellular network, and offer a lot of cool must-have features. If so, why buy an iPhone 4 now from Verizon? You’ll be locked into a 2-year contract with no hopes of upgrading until perhaps the iPhone 7 comes out in 2013.<\/p>\n

Yeah, I don’t really expect that many people to be flocking to the Verizon Store next month to get iPhones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s yet another random blog post as I wallow in the time between urgent projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2626"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2630,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626\/revisions\/2630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}