{"id":6794,"date":"2012-10-01T13:32:22","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T12:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=6794"},"modified":"2012-10-01T13:32:51","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T12:32:51","slug":"pockets-must-have-been-bigger-in-the-nineties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/10\/pockets-must-have-been-bigger-in-the-nineties\/","title":{"rendered":"Pockets must have been bigger in the nineties"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>One of Apple\u2019s first forays into the arena that we think of today as \u2018mobile\u2019 computing was the Newton MessagePad. As <em>a pocketable, hand-sized device<\/em> that was meant to be a a personal organizer, the MessagePad ended up being a long-winded failure for Apple, but it did plant some seeds for what would eventually become Apple\u2019s mobile empire, including the iPhone and iPad.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Apple\u2019s first forays into the arena that we think of today as \u2018mobile\u2019 computing was the Newton MessagePad. As a pocketable, hand-sized device that was meant to be a a personal organizer, the MessagePad ended up being a long-winded failure for Apple, but it did plant some seeds for what would eventually become Apple\u2019s mobile empire, including the iPhone and iPad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[606,25],"tags":[3862,3863,740,3864],"class_list":["post-6794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple-pocket-computers-and-phones","category-link-log","tag-apple-newton","tag-john-scully","tag-pda","tag-size","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-1LA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}