{"id":868427,"date":"2024-10-21T08:11:43","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T02:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=868427"},"modified":"2024-10-21T08:20:36","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T02:50:36","slug":"more-of-the-same-why-i-am-no-more-excited-about-smartphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/10\/21\/more-of-the-same-why-i-am-no-more-excited-about-smartphones\/","title":{"rendered":"More of the same: Why I am no more excited about smartphones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Waiting for a friend, I sneaked into a nearby Mother Diary outlet and asked for a cold drink. The shopkeeper asked for my choice of drink, and I responded: \u201cAnything is fine, as long as it\u2019s cold.\u201d The state of smartphones isn\u2019t any different from the fizzy drink market: phones have become so boring that it doesn\u2019t really matter whether you upgrade to a flagship smartphone or stay on a medium-range device.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waiting for a friend, I sneaked into a nearby Mother Diary outlet and asked for a cold drink. The shopkeeper asked for my choice of drink, and I responded: \u201cAnything is fine, as long as it\u2019s cold.\u201d The state of smartphones isn\u2019t any different from the fizzy drink market: phones have become so boring that it doesn\u2019t really matter whether you upgrade to a flagship smartphone or stay on a medium-range device.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-868427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}