{"id":5257,"date":"2007-02-17T19:53:43","date_gmt":"2007-02-17T19:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/blackberry-8800.html"},"modified":"2007-02-17T19:53:43","modified_gmt":"2007-02-17T19:53:43","slug":"blackberry-8800","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/blackberry-8800.html","title":{"rendered":"Blackberry 8800"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"3\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/msnbcmedia1.msn.com\/j\/msnbc\/Components\/Photos\/070215\/070215_krakow_edge_vmed12p.widec.jpg\" \/>I just hate the thumbwheel on Blackberrys and I am thrilled the company has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/17171115\/\">seen its way<\/a> to the future of technology where a trackball becomes the browsing &ldquo;pointer&rdquo; of choice. After all, browsing with a thumbwheel is perhaps the stupidest idea ever invented in tech &ndash; ranking right up there with Sony deciding not to support the MP3 format in their players and subsequently ceding the entire music player market to Apple.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just hate the thumbwheel on Blackberrys and I am thrilled the company has seen its way to the future of technology where a trackball becomes the browsing &ldquo;pointer&rdquo; of choice. After all, browsing with a thumbwheel is perhaps the stupidest idea ever invented in tech &ndash; ranking right up there with Sony deciding not<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}