{"id":8320,"date":"2009-12-02T09:49:14","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T09:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/really_poor_iphone_predictions.html"},"modified":"2009-12-02T09:49:14","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T09:49:14","slug":"really-poor-iphone-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/really-poor-iphone-predictions.html","title":{"rendered":"Really Poor iPhone Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5416765\/top-5-assclowns-laughing-at-the-iphone-back-in-2007?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gizmodo%2Ffull+%28Gizmodo%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">post<\/a> (light profanity) from Gizmodo presents a humorous look at how very powerful people in technology made some very wrong iPhone predictions.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps my favorite is the <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5416781\/gallery\/5\">quote<\/a> from Ed Colligan, Ex-Palm CEO:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">We&#8217;ve learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone. PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They&#8217;re not going to just walk in.<\/p>\n<div>Gizmodo&#8217;s comments about this quote?<\/div>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">Apparently, Ed, they walked right in, stole your lunch, your dinner, your wife, your car, your horse, and all your pudding. And then they ate it. And pooped it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post (light profanity) from Gizmodo presents a humorous look at how very powerful people in technology made some very wrong iPhone predictions. Perhaps my favorite is the quote from Ed Colligan, Ex-Palm CEO: We&#8217;ve learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone. PC guys are not<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,158,168,181,201,172,160,196,199,188,189,118,174,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8320"}],"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=8320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}