{"id":520,"date":"2004-07-01T19:03:29","date_gmt":"2004-07-01T19:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=520"},"modified":"2004-07-01T19:03:29","modified_gmt":"2004-07-01T19:03:29","slug":"jumping_off_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=520","title":{"rendered":"Jumping Off The S.S. Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sony is making a run<\/a> on Apple’s market share by introducing its own answer to the iPod. But here’s what I don’t get. It uses a proprietary file format that isn’t compatible with any of the existing on-line music stores. It doesn’t even play MP3s. Are the executives at Sony high? I can’t imagine that many people would be willing to give up their MP3 collections for the sake of a new Walkman. I don’t think Steve Jobs will lose any sleep over this.
\nOkay, okay, so I have no excuse to switch to Firefox, as some of you made clear in your comments. By the way, I do appreciate all the comments you guys are leaving. They’re fun to read and it makes me a little less worried that I’m talking to myself.
\nCheck out this PDA for people who are blind<\/a>. It’s got Bluetooth, WiFi, speech output, the works. Very cool. It’s not as portable as a Palm Tungsten, but it’s a step in the right direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sony is making a run on Apple’s market share by introducing its own answer to the iPod. But here’s what I don’t get. It uses a proprietary file format that isn’t compatible with any of the existing on-line music stores. It doesn’t even play MP3s. Are the executives at Sony high? I can’t imagine that […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-8o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}