{"id":8914,"date":"2011-04-20T10:21:45","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T14:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=8914"},"modified":"2011-04-20T10:21:45","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T14:21:45","slug":"what-will-smartphones-kill-off-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/04\/20\/what-will-smartphones-kill-off-next\/","title":{"rendered":"What will Smartphones kill off next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you look at their track record, Smartphones are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/225372\/article.html#tk.nl_inx_t_crawl\" target=\"_blank\">technological hit-men<\/a>, taking down category after category of stand-alone electronic devices:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Cisco&#8217;s recent announcement that it was closing its Flip mini-camcorder business got us thinking. It&#8217;s pretty clear that today&#8217;s smartphones, with their excellent HD video cameras, are partly to blame for the Flip&#8217;s demise. But how many other consumer products and services &mdash; digital or analog &mdash; are being killed off by the big, bad smartphone?<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve assembled a list of likely victims here. If you know of other smartphone-induced casualties, please tell us in the Comments section &mdash; or contact your local law enforcement authorities. Let&#8217;s start with the most obvious victims&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The only two items on their list I disagree with are stand-alone GPS units and paper maps. Paper maps because the portable GPS units are <em>excellent<\/em> for what I think of as tactical directions &mdash; take this turn, drive this distance, etc., but are not as useful for strategic purposes. Paper maps aren&#8217;t dead yet.<\/p>\n<p>And the reason I don&#8217;t think GPS units are quite dead isn&#8217;t technological, but financial: I <em>can&#8217;t afford<\/em> to use my iPhone for GPS because of the <em>insanely high<\/em> data costs when I&#8217;m roaming, especially if I&#8217;m in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you look at their track record, Smartphones are technological hit-men, taking down category after category of stand-alone electronic devices: Cisco&#8217;s recent announcement that it was closing its Flip mini-camcorder business got us thinking. It&#8217;s pretty clear that today&#8217;s smartphones, with their excellent HD video cameras, are partly to blame for the Flip&#8217;s demise. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[122,200,29,547,101],"class_list":["post-8914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-movies","tag-music","tag-photography","tag-smartphones","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2jM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8915,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8914\/revisions\/8915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}