{"id":332,"date":"2012-06-21T16:32:08","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T20:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/?p=332"},"modified":"2012-06-21T16:32:08","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T20:32:08","slug":"way-to-go-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/2012\/06\/21\/way-to-go-microsoft\/","title":{"rendered":"Way to go Microsoft!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thumbs up to Microsoft on the power connector for the upcoming Surface tablet. It will be \u00a0magnetically attached. This is something I miss on my iPad. The iPad sync\/power cable is short enough as it is, without me trying to make it longer by yanking it accidentally and potentially damaging the cable, the iPad connector or the charger. Magnetic connection is simple, safe, easy and the Apple way. Thanks, Microsoft, for choosing the \u201cApple way\u201d and thumbs down to Apple for not doing this already, even after 3versions of the iPad.<a href=\"http:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/05_surface_ports.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"333\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/2012\/06\/21\/way-to-go-microsoft\/05_surface_ports\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/05_surface_ports.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"400,400\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"MS_Surface_Charger\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/05_surface_ports.jpg\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-333\" title=\"MS_Surface_Charger\" src=\"http:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/05_surface_ports-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/05_surface_ports-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/05_surface_ports-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/05_surface_ports.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thumbs up to Microsoft on the power connector for the upcoming Surface tablet. It will be \u00a0magnetically attached. This is something I miss on my iPad. The iPad sync\/power cable is short enough as it is, without me trying to make it longer by yanking it accidentally and potentially damaging &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-slates-for-work"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gH3K-5m","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions\/335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}