{"id":284,"date":"2007-06-27T22:34:51","date_gmt":"2007-06-28T05:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harrymccracken.com\/blog\/?p=284"},"modified":"2007-06-27T22:34:51","modified_gmt":"2007-06-28T05:34:51","slug":"steve-jobs-double-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/27\/steve-jobs-double-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Jobs&#8217; Double Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/www.harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/ratajobs.jpg' alt='ratajobs.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p>You gotta think that this Friday, June 29th, just might be the most significant day in Steve Jobs&#8217; life. On one hand, Apple and AT&#038;T will release the iPhone, a product that we already know will go down in technology history as one of the most-hyped ever&#8211;and which stands a pretty good chance of being as profoundly influential a device as the Apple II, the Macintosh, and the iPod.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Friday wil also see the premiere of Pixar&#8217;s <em>Ratatouille<\/em>. Jobs may no longer be Pixar&#8217;s owner and chairman, but as a Disney board member and the company&#8217;s largest stockholder, he has a lot riding on the film.<\/p>\n<p>Me, I can&#8217;t wait to see <em>Ratatouille<\/em>; absurdly enough, I missed the sneak preview because I was attending a performance of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harrymccracken.com\/blog\/?p=260\">Disney in Deutschland<\/a>. But duty (in the form of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\">PC World<\/a> work) is probably going to call&#8211;chances are I&#8217;ll spend my Friday evening attempting to acquire an iPhone&#8230;and, if I snag one, writing about it for our site. <em>Ratatouille<\/em> will have to wait until at least Saturday, and maybe longer.<\/p>\n<p>Jobs has an iPhone and has presumably seen <em>Ratatouille<\/em>. I wonder how he&#8217;ll spend <em>his<\/em> weekend?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You gotta think that this Friday, June 29th, just might be the most significant day in Steve Jobs&#8217; life. On one hand, Apple and AT&#038;T will release the iPhone, a product that we already know will go down in technology history as one of the most-hyped ever&#8211;and which stands a pretty good chance of being &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/27\/steve-jobs-double-feature\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Steve Jobs&#8217; Double Feature&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[55,5,54,57,53,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-disney","category-iphone","category-pc-world","category-ratatouille","category-steve-jobs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}