{"id":241433,"date":"2010-01-28T10:34:09","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T15:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2010\/01\/28\/scenes-from-the-apple-ipad-day-is-it-a-thneed-or-an-ipod-xl-boomtown\/"},"modified":"2010-01-28T10:34:09","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T15:34:09","slug":"scenes-from-the-apple-ipad-day-is-it-a-thneed-or-an-ipod-xl-boomtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/241433","title":{"rendered":"Scenes From the Apple iPad Day: Is It a Thneed or an iPod XL? [BoomTown]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/5a985_ist2_4824537-xl-size-tag-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-23740\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/5a985_thneed2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-23741\" \/><\/p>\n<p>BoomTown captured some bits and pieces of tasty video, as I attended the Apple rollout of its newest device, the iPad, yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>There are shots of the action in San Francisco outside and inside the launch hall and demo area (with key clips of CEO Steve Jobs during the event), showing off the hardware and software.<\/p>\n<p>And, in a series of interviews, I mocked New York Times tech legend John Markoff, got mocked by Apple (AAPL) PR gurus Katie Cotton and Steve Dowling, got gallant treatment from Gizmodo&#8217;s Brian Lam, got shut down by the New York Times tech dude Brad Stone and got CNBC&#8217;s Jim Goldman&#8211;whom I did <em>not<\/em> ask on a date&#8211;to call the iPad &#8220;an XL version of the iPod Touch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Or is it a Thneed&#8211;the innovative thing that everybody needs&#8211;from Dr. Seuss&#8217; &#8220;The Lorax&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Time will tell, but here&#8217;s the video to enjoy, plus one of the terrific &#8220;Everybody Needs a Thneed&#8221; song:<\/p>\n<p><div>[ See post to watch video ]<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Buy This Item: <a class=\"buy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/buy.php\" ><span style=\"color: #33bc03\">[Click here to buy this item]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kara.allthingsd.com\/20100128\/scenes-from-the-apple-ipad-day-is-it-a-thneed-or-an-ipod-xl\/?mod=ATD_rss\" >Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BoomTown captured some bits and pieces of tasty video, as I attended the Apple rollout of its newest device, the iPad, yesterday. There are shots of the action in San Francisco outside and inside the launch hall and demo area (with key clips of CEO Steve Jobs during the event), showing off the hardware and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}