{"id":2608,"date":"2013-12-19T17:32:34","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T09:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alfredivy.per.sg\/blogger\/?p=2608"},"modified":"2014-02-02T00:46:05","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T16:46:05","slug":"the-tagline-its-been-a-great-ride-but-now-is-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/2013\/12\/the-tagline-its-been-a-great-ride-but-now-is-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The tagline: Its been a great ride but now is time."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I could not bring myself to take down the Palm word from the tagline. \u00a0Too many fond memories. \u00a0I started off using Palm Professional back in the late 90s. \u00a0I think I got it within a month of it hitting the shelves. \u00a0Even got a replacement when I lost it a few months later. \u00a0After going through two more models, IIIx, Vx, the slow convergence and lack of innovation got to me.<\/p>\n<p>I jumped ship to Sony Ericsson P1 in 2008. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blog\/2008\/01\/farewell_palm.html\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>\u00a0 and later to the world of Nokia on the E71. \u00a0This model with the full keyboard is a very popular business phone and a successful ad campaign\u00a0\u00a0during the 2010 World Cup. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/2010\/07\/where-do-you-keep-your-phone\/\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>. gave it an additional boost. \u00a0In 2011, my long sightedness got to me and I decided it is time to upgrade to a full touchscreen phone, Samsung Galaxy S2 9100. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/2011\/10\/moved-from-connecting-people-to-the-green-man\/\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And into the world of the little green man.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, just added \u00a0&#8216;+Android&#8217; to the tagline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tagline is overdue for an update.  Palm Computing and devices are all but a memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,21,222],"tags":[91],"class_list":["post-2608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-me","category-blog","category-smartphones","tag-palm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2608"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2690,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608\/revisions\/2690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}