{"id":661086,"date":"2010-02-10T20:38:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T01:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5469148"},"modified":"2010-02-10T20:38:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T01:38:45","slug":"bill-gates-on-the-ipad-its-a-nice-reader-but-blockquote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/661086","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates on the iPad: &quot;It&#8217;s a Nice Reader, But&#8230;&quot; [Blockquote]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cache.gawkerassets.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/02\/500x_billygipad.jpg?w=500\" class=\"left image500\"  \/><a class=\"autolink\" title=\"Click here to read more posts tagged #billgates\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/billgates\/\">Bill Gates<\/a> doesn&#8217;t seem very impressed with the iPad. Sure he&#8217;s throwing out some nice compliments to Apple, remarking about how great the iPhone is, and all that. But beneath all the pleasantries, he&#8217;s pretty much dismissing the product.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>You know, I&#8217;m a big believer in touch and digital reading, but I still think that some mixture of voice, the pen and a real keyboard \u2013 in other words a netbook \u2013 will be the mainstream on that.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Youch. Of course, as AllThingD&#8217;s John Paczkowski remarks: Bill Gates has made similar remarks in the past. In fact, when the iPod first came out he was noted as saying that &#8220;there&#8217;s nothing that the iPod does that [he would] say, \u2018Oh, wow, I don&#8217;t think we can do that.'&#8221; Deja vu. [<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bnet.com\/corporate-strategy\/?p=101\">BNET<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/digitaldaily.allthingsd.com\/20100210\/bill-gates-on-ipad\/\">All Things D<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=e6fb8204f9a23b10de63aad9e4f241b2&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=e6fb8204f9a23b10de63aad9e4f241b2&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?resize=0%2C0\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=kNKrMANGOKc:wgBE7EI9yIc:H0mrP-F8Qgo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=kNKrMANGOKc:wgBE7EI9yIc:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=kNKrMANGOKc:wgBE7EI9yIc:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=kNKrMANGOKc:wgBE7EI9yIc:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=kNKrMANGOKc:wgBE7EI9yIc:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=kNKrMANGOKc:wgBE7EI9yIc:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gizmodo\/full\/~4\/kNKrMANGOKc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Gates doesn&#8217;t seem very impressed with the iPad. Sure he&#8217;s throwing out some nice compliments to Apple, remarking about how great the iPhone is, and all that. But beneath all the pleasantries, he&#8217;s pretty much dismissing the product. You know, I&#8217;m a big believer in touch and digital reading, but I still think that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":953,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2LYG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/953"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}