{"id":687,"date":"2008-07-12T09:40:35","date_gmt":"2008-07-12T13:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=687"},"modified":"2008-07-11T18:41:07","modified_gmt":"2008-07-11T22:41:07","slug":"speaking-of-old-and-busted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=687","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of Old and Busted&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/images\/centro_full.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/centro_small.png\" alt=\"Centro\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So I get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palm.com\/us\/products\/smartphones\/centro\/index.html?sssdmh=dm13.171929\">the above ad<\/a> in my inbox yesterday, shortly after buying the new iPhone.<\/p>\n<p>Y&#8217;know, Palm has been using <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Palm_OS\">the same OS version for 6 years now<\/a>, and has been promising Linux &#8220;next year&#8221; for about 3 of them.  Their products have gone stagnant and while they were once innovative, they no longer bring anything to the table, technologically speaking.  <\/p>\n<p>And then there was the disaster known as the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Palm_Foleo\">Palm Foleo<\/a>, which was so ill-conceived that Palm&#8217;s remaining userbase rejected the product before it even went on sale.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m surprised they still exist as this point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I get the above ad in my inbox yesterday, shortly after buying the new iPhone. Y&#8217;know, Palm has been using the same OS version for 6 years now, and has been promising Linux &#8220;next year&#8221; for about 3 of them. Their products have gone stagnant and while they were once innovative, they no longer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets-widgits-and-whatzits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}