{"id":2256,"date":"2010-03-01T21:39:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T01:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=2256"},"modified":"2010-03-01T21:39:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T01:39:11","slug":"windows-phone-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/01\/windows-phone-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Phone 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2010\/03\/thoughts_regarding_windows_phone_7\">John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2010\/03\/thoughts_regarding_windows_phone_7\"><p>A new non-Windows name would have let Microsoft use a 1.0 version number. I think the &ldquo;7&rdquo; in &ldquo;Windows Phone 7 Series&rdquo; is a detriment to their message that this is a clean break from Windows Mobile 6 and earlier. The 7 implies &ldquo;new version of the old thing&rdquo;, which isn&rsquo;t what they want at all because the old thing is unloved and unpopular. A new 1.0 thing would have also dampened uncomfortable questions about why phones available today won&rsquo;t be upgradeable to the new system when it ships.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Gruber: A new non-Windows name would have let Microsoft use a 1.0 version number. I think the &ldquo;7&rdquo; in &ldquo;Windows Phone 7 Series&rdquo; is a detriment to their message that this is a clean break from Windows Mobile 6 and earlier. The 7 implies &ldquo;new version of the old thing&rdquo;, which isn&rsquo;t what they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-2256","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\/2256","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=2256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2257,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256\/revisions\/2257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}