{"id":6092,"date":"2011-07-23T20:58:19","date_gmt":"2011-07-23T11:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haakondahl.com\/blog\/?p=1545"},"modified":"2011-07-23T20:58:19","modified_gmt":"2011-07-23T11:58:19","slug":"apple-thunderbolt-display-non-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/apple-thunderbolt-display-non-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Thunderbolt Display Non-Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a puzzling excerpt from a supposed tech review:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Are you ready to meet an Apple\u2019s new Thunderbolt Display (27-inch) that costs $1000 and features 2560 by 1440 pixels solution and high speed Thunderbolt connectivity? Sounds really cool, yeah?!<\/p>\n<p>These new displays boast the main feature that has already become a talk of the town \u2013 they have the Thunderbolt port and that is why they are called the Apple Thunderbolt Display.<\/p>\n<p>I am ready to bet you will be genuinely happy to find out that the 16:9 displays use IPS panels that feature a 178 degree viewing angle. Each display has a built-in FaceTime HD camera, 2.1 speaker system, and integrated MagSafe charger.<\/p>\n<p>It seems to me that these features turn the display into more than just a monitor. The Thunderbolt display will be available \u201dwith the next 60 days\u201d at a MSRP of $999. What a big and pleasant surprise, yeah?!<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/apple-thunderbolt-display-review-2011-7\">Apple Thunderbolt Display Review<\/a>, from the Business Insider site.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You want to be even more puzzled, yeah? \u00a0That&#8217;s the whole article! \u00a0I dare these jerks to tell me to take it down. \u00a0That&#8217;s right, I have reproduced the work in full and I *still* claim fair use, because the content-free nature and self-mocking brevity must be seen to be believed, yeah?<\/p>\n<p>I googled &#8220;Thunderbolt Display Review&#8221;. \u00a0That was what I got. \u00a0That&#8217;s worse than pathetic. \u00a0That&#8217;s just click-farming masquerading as a review. \u00a0I follow Business Insider on FaceBook, but many of their posts are not only suspiciously like spam, they are often about spam, click-farming, and other annoying ways to supposedly generate income from denying others the use of the web. \u00a0But not as a discusssion&#8211;as a how-to.<\/p>\n<p>I am increasingly disappointed with Business Insider. \u00a0I don&#8217;t know much about them, but this has been a turning point. \u00a0Perhaps I fell for a slick logo and the veneer of respectability. \u00a0Perhaps they have always been nothing more that a spam dump and a click-farm, yeah?<\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"6092\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"6092\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\"><\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a puzzling excerpt from a supposed tech review:<\/p>\n<p>Are you ready to meet an Apple\u2019s new Thunderbolt Display (27-inch) that costs $1000 and features 2560 by 1440 pixels solution and high speed Thunderbolt connectivity? Sounds really cool, yeah?!<\/p>\n<p>These new displays boast the main feature that has already become a talk of the town \u2013 they have the Thunderbolt port and that is why they are called the Apple Thunderbolt Display.<\/p>\n<p>I am ready to bet you will be genuinely happy to find out that the 16:9 displays use IPS panels that feature a 178 degree viewing angle. Each display has a built-in FaceTime HD camera, 2.1 speaker system, and integrated MagSafe charger.<\/p>\n<p>It seems to me that these features turn the display into more than just &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/apple-thunderbolt-display-non-review\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[257],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}