{"id":2558,"date":"2008-07-22T00:42:32","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T04:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=2558"},"modified":"2008-07-22T00:42:32","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T04:42:32","slug":"firefox-tablet-i-would-like-one-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/07\/22\/firefox-tablet-i-would-like-one-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox Tablet &#8212; I would like one too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you read through the various comments and blog posts about it, Mike Arrington&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2008\/07\/21\/we-want-a-dead-simple-web-tablet-help-us-build-it\/\">proposal to crowd-source<\/a> the development of a $200 Web tablet with a touch screen &#8212; in effect, an iPod Touch with a larger screen and a solid-state hard drive &#8212; is nothing short of total lunacy. Dozens of people have said that it will <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.hackingcough.com\/2008\/07\/lets_all_crowds.htm\">never work<\/a>, that it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2008\/07\/21\/we-want-a-dead-simple-web-tablet-help-us-build-it\/#comment-2415509\">can&#8217;t be done<\/a> for that kind of price point, that Apple is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macdailynews.com\/index.php\/weblog\/comments\/rumor_apples_secret_product_is_macbook_touch\/\">likely already<\/a> working on one, etc. All of which is probably true. That said, however, I can understand Mike&#8217;s frustration; I&#8217;ve been waiting for that kind of tablet ever since I saw them using one on Star Trek. Put me down for one \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2689708043_3afee5af69_o-300x238.jpg?resize=300%2C238\" alt=\"\" title=\"2689708043_3afee5af69_o\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2559\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you read through the various comments and blog posts about it, Mike Arrington&#8217;s proposal to crowd-source the development of a $200 Web tablet with a touch screen &#8212; in effect, an iPod Touch with a larger screen and a solid-state hard drive &#8212; is nothing short of total lunacy. Dozens of people have said &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/07\/22\/firefox-tablet-i-would-like-one-too\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Firefox Tablet &#8212; I would like one too&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}