{"id":123,"date":"2003-11-11T11:23:14","date_gmt":"2003-11-11T11:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2003\/11\/will_ipod_be_th\/"},"modified":"2003-11-11T11:23:14","modified_gmt":"2003-11-11T11:23:14","slug":"will_ipod_be_th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2003\/11\/will_ipod_be_th\/","title":{"rendered":"Will iPod Be the One Thing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The iPod is more popular than ever with the release of Windows iTunes. This <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&amp;cid=77&amp;e=1&amp;u=\/mc\/20031111\/tc_mc\/toshibatodouble18inchhddproduction\">announcement from Toshiba<\/a> is amazing: &#8220;Additionally, Toshiba said it is also considering production of 1-inch drives. Such drives are small enough to be encased in a CompactFlash card form factor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I was thinking about cell phones, palm pilots, GPS, and wallets (credit cards, money, photos, i.d.s) Surely it will all converge into a single thing and that thing could be an iPod. Apple has built a method of keeping large data files easily updated on your &#8220;thing&#8221;. That includes music and photos. (People carry photos in their wallets.)<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve got address and calendar info updating via iSync like a Palm. How hard can it be to stick a phone and some GPS in there?<\/p>\n<p>None of this bodes well for checks, but my Apple stock should go up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The iPod is more popular than ever with the release of Windows iTunes. This announcement from Toshiba is amazing: &#8220;Additionally, Toshiba said it is also considering production of 1-inch drives. Such drives are small enough to be encased in a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2003\/11\/will_ipod_be_th\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}