{"id":1505,"date":"2010-01-27T14:58:09","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T18:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=1505"},"modified":"2010-01-27T14:58:09","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T18:58:09","slug":"quote-of-the-day-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/technology\/quote-of-the-day-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;I\u2019m betting the Apple product announcement today will have a more positive effect on the economy than Obama\u2019s attempt to rebrand himself on national TV tonight.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/nomosshere.tumblr.com\/post\/356377982\/im-betting-the-apple-product-announcement-today\">Me<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s called the <a href=\"http:\/\/urbintechnology.com\/2010\/01\/27\/apple-annonces-the-ipad\/\">iPad<\/a> and Apple is announcing their own bookstore, in direct competition with Amazon and Barnes &amp; Noble.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Here are some details on the iPad. \u00a0Pundits were wrong on the pricing. They were talking $1000.<\/p>\n<p>The intro price is $499. \u00a0That&#8217;s for 16 Gig and WiFi. The iPad comes in two basic flavors: WiFi &amp; WiFi+3G.<\/p>\n<p>Both models comes in 16, 32 and 64 Gig models. \u00a0So here is the pricing<\/p>\n<p>WiFi only: 16: $499 \u00a032: $599 \u00a064: $699<\/p>\n<p>WiFi+3G: 16: $629 32: $729 64: $829<\/p>\n<p>The announcement said that the iPad will run iPhone\/iTouch apps, so you can load the Amazon Kindle app and read books from Amazon, as well as e-reader apps like Stanza and <a href=\"http:\/\/urbintechnology.com\/2008\/08\/17\/a-good-etext-reader-for-the-iphone\/\">Bookshelf<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So it looks like that the<a href=\"http:\/\/urbintechnology.com\/2010\/01\/15\/best-tech-rumor-ive-heard-lately\/\"> tech rumor that there will be a lot of Kindles on e-Bay<\/a> once these start shipping is probably on target.<\/p>\n<p>The iPad won&#8217;t start shipping for 60 days, another 30 days after that for the 3G models.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/urbintechnology.com\/2010\/01\/27\/apple-annonces-the-ipad\/\">More details at Urbin Technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I\u2019m betting the Apple product announcement today will have a more positive effect on the economy than Obama\u2019s attempt to rebrand himself on national TV tonight.&#8221; Source: Me. It&#8217;s called the iPad and Apple is announcing their own bookstore, in direct competition with Amazon and Barnes &amp; Noble. Update: Here are some details on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"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":[46,30],"tags":[118,291,292,423],"class_list":["post-1505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gear","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-ebook","tag-ebook-reader","tag-ipad"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-oh","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}