{"id":3598,"date":"2011-07-18T20:05:10","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T01:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=3598"},"modified":"2011-07-18T20:05:12","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T01:05:12","slug":"the-smart-cover-a-few-months-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/18\/the-smart-cover-a-few-months-in\/","title":{"rendered":"The Smart Cover, a Few Months In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marco.org\/2011\/07\/15\/ipad-2-smart-cover-review\">Marco Arment<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.marco.org\/2011\/07\/15\/ipad-2-smart-cover-review\"><p>I can&rsquo;t think of many situations in which a Smart Cover provides enough protection to be worth carrying and using for people who care about the aesthetic condition of their iPad. I thought I&rsquo;d be able to ignore my gadget-preservation instincts in this regard, since it&rsquo;s &ldquo;only the back&rdquo;, but I can&rsquo;t.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It seems my <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/02\/ipad-2-smart-cover\/\">original impression<\/a> was mistaken. He switched to the WaterField Designs <a href=\"http:\/\/sfbags.com\/products\/ipad-cases\/smartcase-ipad.php\">iPad Smart Case<\/a>. WaterField is great. I use their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfbags.com\/products\/sleevecases\/sleevecases.php\">Laptop SleeveCase<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfbags.com\/products\/ipad-cases\/suedejacket-ipad.php\">iPad Suede Jacket<\/a>. (I was not as keen on their Kindle offerings, though, and went with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timbuk2.com\/tb2\/products\/kindle-envelope-sleeve\">Timbuk2 Envelope Sleeve<\/a>.)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marco Arment: I can&rsquo;t think of many situations in which a Smart Cover provides enough protection to be worth carrying and using for people who care about the aesthetic condition of their iPad. I thought I&rsquo;d be able to ignore my gadget-preservation instincts in this regard, since it&rsquo;s &ldquo;only the back&rdquo;, but I can&rsquo;t. It [&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-3598","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\/3598","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=3598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3599,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598\/revisions\/3599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}