{"id":35,"date":"2011-10-02T11:26:03","date_gmt":"2011-10-02T18:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bwong\/?p=35"},"modified":"2011-10-02T11:36:09","modified_gmt":"2011-10-02T18:36:09","slug":"35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bwong\/2011\/10\/02\/35\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye, old brick of a phone…hello iPhone 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

Read Business Net\u2019s article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As with the iPhone 4, its successor, the iPhone 5 is in the same position to succeed, despite the fact that most of the hype on the internet has been just that \u2013 hype. This can be a dangerous place to be, especially with the rising popularity of Android phones from Google. However, this is probably not going to stop people from getting the 5 as soon as it comes out.<\/p>\n

In fact, since the launch was pushed back to this coming week due to the earthquake in Japan, there is a greater chance that people will switch to the iPhone 5. People, me included, are nearing the end of their current contract and they\u2019re itching to find the newest \u201cthing,\u201d which just happens to be the new iPhone.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve always known about how \u201cbig\u201d the iPhone was, but it really wasn\u2019t until I read this blog post that I realized how so many people tune into the rumours about Apple just because…well, it\u2019s Apple, and that so many people are in the same situation in terms of their ending phone contracts.<\/p>\n

How clever, Apple, even if you didn’t mean for it to play out like this.<\/p>\n

Bravo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Read Business Net\u2019s article here. As with the iPhone 4, its successor, the iPhone 5 is in the same position to succeed, despite the fact that most of the hype on the internet has been just that \u2013 hype. This can be a dangerous place to be, especially with the rising popularity of Android phones […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8112,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[325813],"tags":[263848,41,319,325816,325817,201398],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linked-to-external-blog","tag-android","tag-apple","tag-google","tag-iphone-4","tag-iphone-5","tag-japan-earthquake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bwong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bwong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bwong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bwong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bwong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bwong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bwong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bwong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bwong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bwong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}