{"id":1093,"date":"2005-09-09T10:26:03","date_gmt":"2005-09-09T14:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/09\/the-ipod-orbit\/"},"modified":"2005-09-09T10:26:03","modified_gmt":"2005-09-09T14:26:03","slug":"the-ipod-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/09\/the-ipod-orbit\/","title":{"rendered":"The iPod Orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bynkii.com\/generic_mac_stuff\/archives\/2005\/09\/idevelopers_ide.html\">John C. Welch<\/a>:\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.bynkii.com\/generic_mac_stuff\/archives\/2005\/09\/idevelopers_ide.html\">\r\n<p>\r\nThe iPod competitors are all so focused on music file formats, and\r\nmusic delivery formats, and subscription vs. buying that they forgot\r\nabout getting people who aren&rsquo;t online music services to build toys for\r\ntheir stuff. So now, Apple has one primary interface, and three four\r\ncase designs. They have a developer program that gets you information\r\non the iPod. As of iTunes 5, the iPod integrates with Outlook. The\r\niPod&rsquo;s no longer a player, it&rsquo;s a platform. The others? Just players.\r\nIn truth, they&rsquo;re nothing but accessories for Microsoft&rsquo;s Windows Media\r\nplatform. That&rsquo;s why each one is an endpoint, and the iPod is really\r\njust a starting point.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John C. Welch: The iPod competitors are all so focused on music file formats, and music delivery formats, and subscription vs. buying that they forgot about getting people who aren&rsquo;t online music services to build toys for their stuff. So now, Apple has one primary interface, and three four case designs. They have a developer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}