{"id":196,"date":"2009-12-09T09:41:04","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T16:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/?p=196"},"modified":"2009-12-09T09:41:04","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T16:41:04","slug":"all-hail-the-ipod-touch-%e2%80%93-gigaom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/all-hail-the-ipod-touch-%e2%80%93-gigaom\/","title":{"rendered":"All Hail the iPod touch \u00e2\u20ac\u201c GigaOM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-84315\" title=\"flurrynovember1\" src=\"http:\/\/gigaom.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/12\/flurrynovember1.png?w=610&amp;h=352\" alt=\"\" width=\"414\" height=\"238\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2009\/12\/06\/all-hail-the-ipod-touch\/\">All Hail the iPod touch \u00e2\u20ac\u201c GigaOM<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen some posts about the value of the iPod touch as the training wheels that prep kids to go on an purchase an iPhone.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s valuable but I think the most important contribution of the touch is how it expands the OS platform.\u00c2\u00a0 I would argue that the iPhone would have matured at a much slower pace were it not for the iPod touch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Hail the iPod touch \u00e2\u20ac\u201c GigaOM. I&#8217;ve seen some posts about the value of the iPod touch as the training wheels that prep kids to go on an purchase an iPhone.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s valuable but I think the most important contribution of the touch is how it expands the OS platform.\u00c2\u00a0 I would argue that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/all-hail-the-ipod-touch-%e2%80%93-gigaom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">All Hail the iPod touch \u00e2\u20ac\u201c GigaOM<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[54,63,64],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-iphone","tag-network-effects","tag-two-sided-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}