{"id":316,"date":"2014-09-10T13:54:19","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T20:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghosh.com\/blog\/?p=316"},"modified":"2018-04-17T11:23:59","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T18:23:59","slug":"apple-iwatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghosh.com\/blog\/apple-iwatch\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple &#8220;iWatch&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ktujsc4ZUTo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s hard to know with what to be more impressed &#8212; the watch, the technology, the design, the demo video, even the product videography that went into the video is amazing. \u00a0Apple still has it after Jobs &#8212; albeit, clearly, this product has been in development for years. \u00a0What I find myself wondering, is how many things will this disrupt? \u00a0I cringe for watchmakers (which have taken a beating from smartphones already) and fitness specialty watches. \u00a0 Will this cannibalize, a bit, even smart phone usage? \u00a0With payment, what will I do with my Coin, which I haven&#8217;t even received yet, let alone the phone payment options? \u00a0Although&#8230;you still need an iPhone to use this iWatch. \u00a0&#8220;Unfortunately&#8221;, I have an Android device, so I find myself wondering, who will\/could develop a device even close this cool? \u00a0Samsung? \u00a0HTC? \u00a0Well, maybe some cobbled subset given enough time. \u00a0Until then, I live with my Ironman and Tissot trusted timepieces, (who uses those anymore?) \u00a0 The &#8220;iWatch&#8221; looks pretty cool, but I did buy an Apple Newton back in the 90&#8217;s. \u00a0We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to know with what to be more impressed &#8212; the watch, the technology, the design, the demo video, even the product videography <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghosh.com\/blog\/apple-iwatch\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghosh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghosh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghosh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghosh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghosh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghosh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghosh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions\/492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghosh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghosh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghosh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghosh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}