{"id":6869,"date":"2011-10-10T22:31:48","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T05:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/?p=6869"},"modified":"2011-10-10T22:31:48","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T05:31:48","slug":"tech-pundits-are-out-to-prove-1-million-people-to-be-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2011\/10\/10\/tech-pundits-are-out-to-prove-1-million-people-to-be-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Pundits are out to prove 1 Million People to be wrong."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s travel back 6 days and a lot of tech pundits were ragging on the newly announced iPhone 4S.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Same design with iPhone 4?<\/li>\n<li>No 4-inch screen?<\/li>\n<li>No LTE?<\/li>\n<li>No NFC?<\/li>\n<li>No Red iPhone 4S?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>OK, I made up that last one, but I&#8217;m pretty sure some pundits are thinking it.<\/p>\n<p>Despite of the mixed reviews, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/pr\/library\/2011\/10\/10iPhone-4S-Pre-Orders-Top-One-Million-in-First-24-Hours.html\" target=\"_blank\">iPhone 4S tops 1 million pre-orders in the first 24 hours<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>CUPERTINO, California\u2014October 10, 2011\u2014Apple\u00ae today announced pre-orders of its iPhone\u00ae 4S have topped one million in a single day, surpassing the previous single day pre-order record of 600,000 held by iPhone 4.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I bet the 1 million pre-orders still a disappointment to Apple haters.<\/p>\n<p>Some publications even dared to link the 1 million iPhone 4S pre-orders to Steve Jobs&#8217; death; what a classless move. I found out about it through <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/treestman\/status\/123532034600742913\" target=\"_blank\">a tweet from Tom Reestman<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/thesmallwave.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Small Wave<\/a>. Shame on International Business Time this headline: &#8220;iPhone 4S Fortunes Linked to Steve Jobs&#8217; Untimely Death?&#8221;. Just admit that there are a lot of people want to get their hands on iPhone 4S.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2011\/10\/11\/iphone-4s-jobs\" target=\"_blank\">John Gruber&#8217;s take<\/a> on International Business Times idiotic explanations.<\/p>\n<p>iPhone 4S is scheduled for release on Friday October 14th, 2011.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/iPhone-4S-Reminder.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"iPhone-4S-Reminder\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/iPhone-4S-Reminder.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"900\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Image courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Inc<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s travel back 6 days and a lot of tech pundits were ragging on the newly announced iPhone 4S. Same design with iPhone 4? No 4-inch screen? No LTE? No NFC? No Red iPhone 4S? OK, I made up that last one, but I&#8217;m pretty sure some pundits are thinking it. Despite of the mixed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2011\/10\/10\/tech-pundits-are-out-to-prove-1-million-people-to-be-wrong\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tech Pundits are out to prove 1 Million People to be wrong.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[946,4],"tags":[1594,1602,2823,936],"class_list":["post-6869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-news","tag-iphone","tag-iphone-4s","tag-steve-jobs","tag-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-1MN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}