{"id":1498,"date":"2011-03-03T11:29:10","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T16:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/?p=1498"},"modified":"2011-03-03T11:29:10","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T16:29:10","slug":"ipad2-smart-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/?p=1498","title":{"rendered":"iPad2 “Smart” Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"

Says the folks at Engadget<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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By now you’ve seen Apple’s Smart Cover, right? The mind blowing cover (don’t call it a case) pretty much stole the show during yesterday’s iPad2 press event, causing children to weep at the sight of our exploded bodies.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And now John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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If you do nothing else, watch the video for the Smart Cover. Seriously, it’s amazing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

You’d think he’d invented WonkaVision<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Engadget link has a video of the cover. My mind is most decidedly not blown and, while I’ll certainly admit it’s clever, it isn’t within a lightyear of “amazing” by my reckoning.<\/p>\n

What is amazing is that Apple (and Steve Jobs) can get people (presumably fully-grown and mature adults) who deal with technology<\/em> on a regular basis to react like this to a magnet in a cloth with a couple of folds. Seriously, if Jobs announced tomorrow that he ate his bread butter-side down, I’d expect to be living in the Butter Battle Book<\/em> 5 minutes later.<\/p>\n

I mean, after reading Mr. Gruber’s head-through-the-sphincter description I was expecting maybe something made out of the memory cloth from Batman Begins<\/em>. Or perhaps something (not sure what) from Under Armour. They make lots of cool stuff as glorified seamstresses- have you seen that shirt with the data collector built into it<\/a>? Very cool.<\/p>\n

The iPad2 Cover by Apple? Meh. Besides, someone else already makes a better version of it. The video for that is also at the Engadget link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Says the folks at Engadget: By now you’ve seen Apple’s Smart Cover, right? The mind blowing cover (don’t call it a case) pretty much stole the show during yesterday’s iPad2 press event, causing children to weep at the sight of our exploded bodies. And now John Gruber: If you do nothing else, watch the video […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[105,106],"class_list":["post-1498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","tag-ipad2","tag-smart-cover"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}