{"id":3927,"date":"2008-12-30T22:33:58","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T02:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=3927"},"modified":"2008-12-30T22:33:58","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T02:33:58","slug":"apple-ipod-touch-large-i-want-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/12\/30\/apple-ipod-touch-large-i-want-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple iPod Touch large: I want one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid all the rumours that Steve Jobs is <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5120687\/steve-jobs-health-declining-rapidly-reason-for-macworld-cancellation\">getting sicker<\/a> comes what I think is a much more interesting rumour: that Apple will launch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2008\/12\/30\/large-form-ipod-touch-to-launch-in-fall-09\/\">a larger-format<\/a> iPod Touch. Not that I don&#8217;t care about Steve-O and his health, of course &#8212; I do. But when it comes to Apple products, I&#8217;m really interested in the idea of a kind of wireless mini-tablet with the multi-touch interface (something <a href=\"http:\/\/factoryjoe.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/05\/apple-tablet-concept-the-ipad-touch\/\">Chris Messina<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2008\/08\/29\/apple-patent-filings-detail-touchscreen-tablet\/\">others<\/a> have mused about in the past). <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Having had a chance to play around with both the iPhone and the iPod Touch, I found them almost irresistible as a quick Web-browsing device while sitting on the couch watching TV or even sitting with friends chatting. To have something <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alleyinsider.com\/2008\/12\/apple-tablet-ipod-touch-hd\">a little larger<\/a> &#8212; making images, video and Web pages that much easier to see &#8212; but with that touch interface and all of the iPhone apps, would be a pretty killer device I think. And as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2008\/12\/30\/large-form-ipod-touch-to-launch-in-fall-09\/#comment-2580882\">some have noted<\/a> in comments on the TechCrunch post, it could be pretty stiff competition for the Amazon Kindle e-reader as well.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid all the rumours that Steve Jobs is getting sicker comes what I think is a much more interesting rumour: that Apple will launch a larger-format iPod Touch. Not that I don&#8217;t care about Steve-O and his health, of course &#8212; I do. But when it comes to Apple products, I&#8217;m really interested in the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/12\/30\/apple-ipod-touch-large-i-want-one\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Apple iPod Touch large: I want one&#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-3927","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\/3927","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=3927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}