{"id":4185,"date":"2004-07-30T19:11:40","date_gmt":"2004-07-30T19:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=4185"},"modified":"2004-07-30T19:11:40","modified_gmt":"2004-07-30T19:11:40","slug":"real_apple_and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=4185","title":{"rendered":"Real, Apple, and Tethering"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s an interesting article over on engadget.com about “tethering”<\/a>. Tethering is where one product is tied into another, one example given is the little packets of coffee for use in a certain coffee maker.<\/p>\n

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So we looked on with enthusiasm at the new pressurized personal coffee makers. They push hot water through a sealed “pod” filled with a precise measure of coffee. It was neat, slick, well-designed, and promised a strong, good, dependable dose. It’s the same technology that supplies those surprisingly good coffee available from coin machines in public spaces in Europe.<\/p>\n

After a half-hour of debating the pros and cons of such a radical “format shift,” we left without one of these cool new machines. We opted out because these specialized “pods” are essentially “tethered” to this brand of coffee maker. [engadget.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The author goes on to mention other devices that are tethered in this way (or becoming tethered) such as printers makers and garage-door opener companies. He also talks about the whole Apple vs Real<\/a> situation and how it is becoming another example of this. I personally think Apple is blowing it. As much as I’m not a fan of Real this doesn’t seem like that big a deal to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s an interesting article over on engadget.com about “tethering”. Tethering is where one product is tied into another, one example given is the little packets of coffee for use in a certain coffee maker. So we looked on with enthusiasm at the new pressurized personal coffee makers. They push hot water through a sealed “pod” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136,121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky-stuff","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}