{"id":15459,"date":"2011-10-04T14:40:04","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T18:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=15459"},"modified":"2016-09-20T18:48:16","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T22:48:16","slug":"apples-aapl-forstall-asks-the-iphone-do-i-need-a-raincoat-here-is-what-we-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/04\/apples-aapl-forstall-asks-the-iphone-do-i-need-a-raincoat-here-is-what-we-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple&#8217;s (AAPL) Forstall Asks the iPhone: Do I Need a Raincoat? Here is What We Think.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the Apple (AAPL) conference today Scott Forstall was on stage showing off the new voice recognition feature:<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/digits\/2011\/10\/04\/live-blog-apple-event-%e2%80%93-iphone-announcement\/\"><strong>WSJ live blog<\/strong><\/a> of the event had an entry:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;presses and holds the home button on the iPhone and asks his phone what the weather will be like, and it pop ups up the weather. He then asked it &#8220;Do I need a raincoat today?&#8221; Siri answers: &#8220;It sure looks like rain today.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Without an iPhone 5 announcement, the response should have been more like: &#8220;No sir, hardhats are much better as protection from the falling price of your shares&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Will an iPhone 5 announcement be a surprise coming<!--more--> soon? Why didn&#8217;t they announce what we all had heard to be in the works?<\/p>\n<p>The chart below shows the dissapointment.<\/p>\n<p>2:30pm&#8230;..(Who knows, maybe there will be something yet &#8211; there is always hope&#8230;. right?)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15514\" title=\"aapl_no-annoounce\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/aapl_no-annoounce-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"509\" height=\"374\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the Apple (AAPL) conference today Scott Forstall was on stage showing off the new voice recognition feature: The WSJ live blog of the event had an entry: &#8230;presses and holds the home button on the iPhone and asks his phone what the weather will be like, and it pop ups up the weather. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,42],"tags":[483,484],"class_list":["post-15459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-markets","category-stocks","tag-markets","tag-technology","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}