{"id":341,"date":"2012-06-28T08:55:41","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T12:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/?p=341"},"modified":"2012-06-28T09:00:16","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T13:00:16","slug":"341","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/2012\/06\/28\/341\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Fire Eater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/google_nexus_7_370.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-342\" title=\"google_nexus_7_370\" src=\"http:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/google_nexus_7_370.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"370\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/google_nexus_7_370.jpg 370w, https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/google_nexus_7_370-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px\" \/><\/a>Google announced yesterday their new, first google-branded 7&#8243; tablet to competed with the Amazon Kindle Fire at $199. It&#8217;s a little bit better hardware than the Fire and built by ASUS, but sold as a Google tablet. It&#8217;ll emphasize Google&#8217;s Play store for media consumption &#8211; reading, movie watching, etc.<\/p>\n<p>The company isn&#8217;t expected to make money selling this tablet, but hopes to grab market share they&#8217;ve been steadily losing to the great price point of the Fire. I guess we&#8217;ll just have to see how they do at this. For more info, read:\u00a0<a title=\"CNN Story\" href=\"http:\/www.crn.com\/news\/mobility\/240002844\/google-unveils-nexus-7-tablet-new-android-jelly-bean-os.htm\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.crn.com\/news\/mobility\/240002844\/google-unveils-nexus-7-tablet-new-android-jelly-bean-os.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I wanted to post this from my iPad yesterday, but I ended up spending a couple of hours trying to get my WordPress IOS App to sync with my blog. \u00a0No success. Others that share my problem seem to have concluded that the last few updates to the app broke it. Sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google announced yesterday their new, first google-branded 7&#8243; tablet to competed with the Amazon Kindle Fire at $199. It&#8217;s a little bit better hardware than the Fire and built by ASUS, but sold as a Google tablet. It&#8217;ll emphasize Google&#8217;s Play store for media consumption &#8211; reading, movie watching, etc. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-slates-for-work"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":346,"href":"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions\/346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}