{"id":4549,"date":"2008-09-11T20:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T14:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=3004"},"modified":"2008-09-11T20:03:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-11T14:33:00","slug":"apple-launches-the-ithing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/apple-launches-the-ithing\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Launches The iThing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anand Ramachandran is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bosey.co.in\/2008\/09\/apple-launches-ithing-nobody-knows-what.html\" title=\" Apple launches iThing &#8211; nobody knows what it does, but millions line up outside stores to buy one!\">in fine form<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>World renowned cool company Apple Inc. has launched their latest product, the iThing &#8211; a strange, minimalistic handheld device with no apparent features or uses. Now available in stores globally, the iThing is unbelievable sleek, sexy, desirable and useless. While even Apple has admitted that they have no idea what it actually is, this hasn&#8217;t prevented millions of Mac fans from lining up outside retail outlets from the wee hours of the morning to be among the first to own one.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile across the world people are dropping Microsoft&#8217;s MS Thing and finding that it&#8230; crashes. So there we go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anand Ramachandran is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bosey.co.in\/2008\/09\/apple-launches-ithing-nobody-knows-what.html\" title=\" Apple launches iThing &#8211; nobody knows what it does, but millions line up outside stores to buy one!\">in fine form<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>World renowned cool company Apple Inc. has launched their latest product, the iThing &#8211; a strange, minimalistic handheld device with no apparent features or uses. Now available in stores globally, the iThing is unbelievable sleek, sexy, desirable and useless. While even Apple has admitted that they have no idea what it actually is, this hasn&#8217;t prevented millions of Mac fans from lining up outside retail outlets from the wee hours of the morning to be among the first to own one.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile across the world people are dropping Microsoft&#8217;s MS Thing and finding that it&#8230; crashes. 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