{"id":8620,"date":"2014-01-06T13:20:31","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T13:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=8620"},"modified":"2014-01-06T13:20:31","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T13:20:31","slug":"danger-chrisdanger-dot-com-heres-a-bit-of-sidekick-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/01\/danger-chrisdanger-dot-com-heres-a-bit-of-sidekick-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Danger, Chris@Danger, Dot Com, Here&#8217;s a bit of Sidekick history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/chrisdesalvo\">Chris DeSalvo<\/a>, one of Danger&#8217;s first employees writes about Danger&#8217;s smartphone technology at length:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I came across a website whose purpose was to provide a super detailed list of every handheld computing environment going back to the early 1970&#8217;s. It did a great job except for one glaring omission: the first mobile platform that I helped develop. The company was called Danger, the platform was called hiptop, and what follows is an account of our early days, and a list of some of the \u201cmodern\u201d technologies we shipped years before you could buy an iOS or Android device.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As you might expect, lots of discussion and comparisons to US devices, and no mention at all of SIBO, Psion, ARM,\u00a0EPOC, or Symbian, but <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/tech-talk\/d823af31f7c\">a nice read nonetheless<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris DeSalvo, one of Danger&#8217;s first employees writes about Danger&#8217;s smartphone technology at length: I came across a website whose purpose was to provide a super detailed list of every handheld computing environment going back to the early 1970&#8217;s. It did a great job except for one glaring omission: the first mobile platform that I helped develop. The company was called Danger, the platform was called hiptop, and what follows is an account of our early days, and a list of some of the \u201cmodern\u201d technologies we shipped years before you could buy an iOS or Android device. As you<\/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":[25,4],"tags":[1411,4966,1087,1140,1410],"class_list":["post-8620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-log","category-pocket-computers-and-phones","tag-danger","tag-hiptop","tag-history","tag-retrospective","tag-sidekick","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-2f2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8620","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=8620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}