{"id":2926,"date":"2010-01-28T08:03:58","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T16:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=2926"},"modified":"2010-01-28T08:03:58","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T16:03:58","slug":"dw-english-ipad-combines-american-panache-with-euro-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/28\/dw-english-ipad-combines-american-panache-with-euro-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"DW English: iPad combines American panache with Euro technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dw-world.de\/dw\/article\/0,,5176887,00.html\"><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4006\/4311835298_e2735497a4_d.jpg\"\/><\/center><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>by Cyrus Farivar<\/p>\n<p>After seemingly endless weeks of rumors, Apple finally released its tablet computer, calling it the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ipad\">iPad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The device, which will sell worldwide at a starting price of $499 (\u20ac356.65) later this year, represents something in between the company&#8217;s extraordinarily popular iPhones and its line of laptops.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If there&#8217;s going to be a third category of device, it&#8217;s going to have to be better at these kinds of tasks than a laptop or a smartphone; otherwise it has no reason for being,&#8221; said Apple CEO Steve Jobs at the special event in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>The basic model comes with 16 gigabytes of flash memory storage and WiFi &#8212; it will go on sale in two months. For an additional $130, users can buy an iPad with third-generation (3G) wireless capability, for high-speed access from nearly anywhere. The most advance model on offer will top out at $829.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For more, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dw-world.de\/dw\/article\/0,,5176887,00.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Cyrus Farivar After seemingly endless weeks of rumors, Apple finally released its tablet computer, calling it the iPad. The device, which will sell worldwide at a starting price of $499 (\u20ac356.65) later this year, represents something in between the company&#8217;s extraordinarily popular iPhones and its line of laptops. &#8220;If there&#8217;s going to be a third category of device, it&#8217;s going to have to be better at these kinds of tasks than a laptop or a smartphone; otherwise it has&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"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}},"categories":[7,58,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-apple","category-europe","category-ipad","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-Lc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}