{"id":706,"date":"2011-02-14T00:04:13","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T08:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/?p=706"},"modified":"2011-02-14T00:04:13","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T08:04:13","slug":"just-a-big-ipod-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/just-a-big-ipod-touch\/","title":{"rendered":"Just a big iPod Touch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The funny thing about the critics who derided the iPad as &#8220;just a big iPod Touch&#8221; is that they were exactly right. They just came to the wrong conclusion. The amazing thing about the iPad is that it has the same simple and intuitive touch-optimized functionality as the iPod Touch. But it&#8217;s bigger, so it&#8217;s that much more useful and that much more fun.<\/p>\n<p>This was pretty <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/swimming-pool-analogy\/\">clear<\/a> to us at Omni from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omnigroup.com\/blog\/entry\/iPad_or_Bust\">beginning<\/a>, since we had never been very satisfied with most (conceptual) versions of our apps that fit on an iPhone-sized display. By contrast, we loved our iPad-sized translations almost immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The funny thing about the critics who derided the iPad as &#8220;just a big iPod Touch&#8221; is that they were exactly right. They just came to the wrong conclusion. The amazing thing about the iPad is that it has the same simple and intuitive touch-optimized functionality as the iPod Touch. But it&#8217;s bigger, so it&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/just-a-big-ipod-touch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Just a big iPod Touch&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}