{"id":261,"date":"2010-04-07T08:33:55","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T13:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2010\/04\/07\/100407_godinandipad\/"},"modified":"2022-03-17T12:29:57","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T17:29:57","slug":"100407_godinandipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2010\/04\/07\/100407_godinandipad\/","title":{"rendered":"Seth Godin: iPad Lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This may be the first time I&#8217;ve referred to the iPad on the Gazette (OK, knowing how <i>some<\/i> of you are, I just confirmed this with a quick search), and I don&#8217;t plan to do any additional blogging about it in the future, at least not until I get one and can then hold it out as clear evidence of my superior hipsterishness.<\/p>\n<p>And even this post isn&#8217;t so much about the iPad itself, as I haven&#8217;t seen one in real life, much less tested one (although that hasn&#8217;t stopped a disturbingly large number of people from expressing a disturbingly large amount of hate\/revulsion\/contempt for a small inanimate object and\/or its manufacturer; really, people&#8230;Get. A. Life.). No, I simply want to point you to <a href=\"http:\/\/sethgodin.typepad.com\/seths_blog\/2010\/04\/secrets-of-the-biggest-selling-launch-ever.html\">Seth Godin&#8217;s musings<\/a> about lessons other businesses, large and small, can learn from the launch of Apple&#8217;s latest offering. He makes some great points about how businesses should think about their strategies and their customers. You don&#8217;t have to work in the tech industry to benefit from his insights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This may be the first time I&#8217;ve referred to the iPad on the Gazette (OK, knowing how some of you are, I just confirmed this with a quick search), and I don&#8217;t plan to do any additional blogging about it in the future, at least not until I get one and can then hold it&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2010\/04\/07\/100407_godinandipad\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Seth Godin: iPad Lessons<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8921,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/8921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}