{"id":233,"date":"2010-03-08T16:21:57","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T23:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jorper98.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/08\/to-ipad-or-not-to-ipad-courier-is-the-question\/"},"modified":"2022-09-26T12:10:32","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T19:10:32","slug":"to-ipad-or-not-to-ipad-courier-is-the-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/to-ipad-or-not-to-ipad-courier-is-the-question\/","title":{"rendered":"To iPad or not to iPad: Courier is the question"},"content":{"rendered":"

So much conversation about this topic, one more would not hurt. <\/p>\n

Like many folks out there, I can\u2019t wait to get an iPad early next month<\/a> and start playing with it, but I must confess, I am not sure why (other than it is sexy).   For several years I have been using a regular HP tablet PC, and although its capabilities come in handy from time to time, I mostly use it for reading digital magazines, and drawing (more like doodling)  and sometimes take meeting notes\/ diagrams.    I also own and use often a Sony eReader for book reading, and I love it, but it is most certainly showing its age (every so often I try to scroll from page to page with my fingers and realize ooops. ) <\/p>\n

The platform and concept is not new, but it is definitely updated.<\/p>\n

Today I read and watch the video<\/strong> for the Microsoft Courier device in Engadget blog<\/a> and the first though that came to my mind was \u2013 I should wait for it\u2026  Then the second was:  Can I afford to buy both?     (left and right shoulder consciousness characters ) <\/p>\n

Silly I know, but is it only me?  (I hope not! ) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So much conversation about this topic, one more would not hurt. Like many folks out there, I can\u2019t wait to get an iPad early next month and start playing with it, but I must confess, I am not sure why (other than it is sexy).   For several years I have been using a regular HP…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,468],"tags":[639,822,467],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-journey","category-thoughts-ramblings","tag-artist","tag-ipad","tag-musings"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":17,"label":"Journey"},{"value":468,"label":"Thoughts and Ramblings"}],"post_tag":[{"value":639,"label":"Artist"},{"value":822,"label":"ipad"},{"value":467,"label":"Musings"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/jorgep-BlogPostGeneric.jpg?t=1777548963",1024,512,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"Jorge Pereira","author_link":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/author\/jorge\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":17,"name":"Journey","slug":"journey","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":18,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":322,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":17,"category_count":322,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Journey","category_nicename":"journey","category_parent":0},{"term_id":468,"name":"Thoughts and Ramblings","slug":"thoughts-ramblings","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":478,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":232,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":468,"category_count":232,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Thoughts and Ramblings","category_nicename":"thoughts-ramblings","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":639,"name":"Artist","slug":"artist","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":649,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":8,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":822,"name":"ipad","slug":"ipad","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":832,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":467,"name":"Musings","slug":"musings","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":477,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":115,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}