{"id":1615,"date":"2007-06-27T15:39:06","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T18:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=2153"},"modified":"2010-05-08T17:38:03","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T20:38:03","slug":"obligatory-iphone-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2007\/06\/27\/obligatory-iphone-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Obligatory iPhone post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Googling (oops, pardon, searching Google I mean) for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=iphone&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8\">iPhone<\/a> just now yields &#8220;about 76,100,000&#8221; hits. Wow. Just goes to show how Steve Jobs has perfected the art of letting the press do Apple&#8217;s marketing at very little cost.<\/p>\n<p>As a stockholder, I&#8217;m all for it. By all accounts, the iPhone, which goes on sale the day after tomorrow, will sell very well, and AAPL stock has already gone up 50% this year. As a cellphone non-user I don&#8217;t care; it&#8217;ll take a long time to be sold here in Brazil, and even if it were on sale tomorrow, I wouldn&#8217;t buy one for my daily use. As I said before, a &#8220;OS X&#8221;-based tablet would be more interesting.<\/p>\n<p>But speaking of OS X, I wonder what version will be installed on the iPhone. The <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/apple.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/>TV seems to run a special build of version 10.4.7, by all accounts. Originally I&#8217;d expected the iPhone to run a stripped-down version of 10.5 (Leopard), but now that Leopard has been delayed, that&#8217;s no longer plausible. How Apple will manage the whole Mac OS X &#8211; OS X dichotomy still remains a mistery&#8230; no doubt we&#8217;ll have detailed dissections of the iPhone contents next Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Googling (oops, pardon, searching Google I mean) for iPhone just now yields &#8220;about 76,100,000&#8221; hits. Wow. Just goes to show how Steve Jobs has perfected the art of letting the press do Apple&#8217;s marketing at very little cost. As a stockholder, I&#8217;m all for it. By all accounts, the iPhone, which goes on sale the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-1615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","tag-klicko"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-q3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}