{"id":345,"date":"2009-07-07T23:52:14","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T03:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/?p=345"},"modified":"2009-07-07T23:52:14","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T03:52:14","slug":"biting-the-handsets-that-connect-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/index.php\/2009\/07\/biting-the-handsets-that-connect-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Biting the handsets that connect the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the July 4 weekend, relatives and friends kept asking me: <em>Which mobile phone should I buy? There are so many choices.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I told them I love my iPhone, but all kinds of new devices from BlackBerries and Samsungs to Palm&#8217;s new Pre make strong showings, and the less well-known HTC, one of the biggest innovators of the last couple years, is churning out cool phones across the price-point and capability spectrum. Several days before, on Wednesday, July 1, I had made a mid-afternoon stop at the local Apple store. It was packed. A short line formed at the entrance where a salesperson was taking names on a clipboard. After 15 minutes of browsing, it was my turn to talk to a salesman, and I asked: &#8220;Why is the store so crowded? Some special event?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nope,&#8221; he answered. &#8220;This is pretty normal for a Wednesday afternoon, especially since the iPhone 3G S release.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bretswanson.com\/index.php\/2009\/07\/biting-the-handsets-that-connect-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest of this entry \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the July 4 weekend, relatives and friends kept asking me: Which mobile phone should I buy? There are so many choices. I told them I love my iPhone, but all kinds of new devices from BlackBerries and Samsungs to Palm&#8217;s new Pre make strong showings, and the less well-known HTC, one of the biggest innovators of the last couple &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/index.php\/2009\/07\/biting-the-handsets-that-connect-the-world\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-note","no-post-thumbnail"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365,"href":"https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions\/365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}