{"id":385,"date":"2008-01-15T20:23:46","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T00:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/15\/apple-and-the-age-of-mobile-computing\/"},"modified":"2008-01-15T21:31:38","modified_gmt":"2008-01-16T01:31:38","slug":"apple-and-the-age-of-mobile-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/15\/apple-and-the-age-of-mobile-computing\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple and the age of mobile computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/macair.jpg\" alt=\"macair.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/>With MacWorld today, Apple rolled out another leg of their mobile strategy with the new Macbook Air. You can read my <a href=\"http:\/\/searchengineland.com\/080115-151640.php\">summary of Job&#8217;s keynote<\/a> at SEL. Mobile computing is taking on a number of new forms &#8211; phone, music player. 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