{"id":5172,"date":"2008-11-20T18:06:42","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T01:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/storm-not-winning-any-raves\/"},"modified":"2008-11-20T18:06:42","modified_gmt":"2008-11-21T01:06:42","slug":"storm-not-winning-any-raves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/20\/storm-not-winning-any-raves\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm not winning any raves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tOm Malik isn&#8217;t impressed by the <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2008\/11\/20\/whats-a-blackberry-without-a-keyboard\/#comment-913947\">BlackBerry Storm and neither am I:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Storm reminds me of the St. Louis Cardinals phenom Rich Ankiel, who was an awesome pitcher till he flamed out, got hurt and came back as an outfielder and a hitter. He scored a lot of runs last seasons, but he isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a center fielder like Mickey Mantle. He is just another player. Storm will be that \u00e2\u20ac\u201d just another touch-screen smartphone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He points out that Blackberry excels at text, which is merely adequate on a touch screen. The omission of Wi-Fi makes the Storm unacceptable for me, so I reluctantly got a G1 to replace my lost Blackberry Curve, and I&#8217;m not exactly Google&#8217;s biggest fan (see next post.) <\/p>\n<p>Ankiel&#8217;s OPS, .843, ranks 78th in the National League, BTW, which is the definition of mediocre.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Om Malik isn&#8217;t impressed by the BlackBerry Storm and neither am I: The Storm reminds me of the St. Louis Cardinals phenom Rich Ankiel, who was an awesome pitcher till he flamed out, got hurt and came back as an outfielder and a hitter. He scored a lot of runs last seasons, but he isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/20\/storm-not-winning-any-raves\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Storm not winning any raves&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets","category-wireless"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-1lq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}