{"id":2117,"date":"2008-12-04T11:26:33","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T10:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=2117"},"modified":"2008-12-04T11:26:33","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T10:26:33","slug":"why-does-wifi-keep-showing-up-in-more-and-more-best-selling-gadgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=2117","title":{"rendered":"Why does WiFi keep showing up in more and more best selling gadgets?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"zemanta-img\" style=\"margin: 1em; float: right; display: block;\">\n<div>\n<dl class=\"wp-caption\" style=\"\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:Wi-Fi_Logo.svg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/3\/32\/Wi-Fi_Logo.svg\/202px-Wi-Fi_Logo.svg.png\" alt=\"Wi-Fi logo\" title=\"Wi-Fi logo\" width=\"202\" height=\"130\"\/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd zemanta-img-attribution\" style=\"font-size: 0.8em;\">Image via <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:Wi-Fi_Logo.svg\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2008\/12\/03\/the-handset-of-the-future-needs-wi-fi\/\">Stacey at GigaOm<\/a> shot his video.  While this video won\u00b4t make it to the most watched videos it gives an excellent explanation of why <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wi-Fi\" title=\"Wi-Fi\" rel=\"wikipedia\" class=\"zem_slink\">WiFi<\/a> keeps growing exponentially around the world.  In 2006 when<a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2008\/12\/03\/the-handset-of-the-future-needs-wi-fi\/\"> Fon<\/a> was founded there were around 200 million wifi chips made and this year will end with over a billion.  And while it doesn\u00b4t mention Fon it is gadgets that is making us end the year with over 300,000 Fonspots around the world.  It\u00b4s paradoxical that Fon started as a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WiMAX\" title=\"WiMAX\" rel=\"wikipedia\" class=\"zem_slink\">WiMax<\/a> company, failed and was reborn as a WiFi company.  WiMax is the perennial future that never happens.  WiFi grows and grows.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/EjPRQ1TGoqA&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/EjPRQ1TGoqA&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\" class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/f1b7f21b-f070-4072-aed0-206885dc4b80\/\" title=\"Zemified by Zemanta\"><img style=\"border: medium none ; float: right;\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?x-id=f1b7f21b-f070-4072-aed0-206885dc4b80\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=2117\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image via Wikipedia Stacey at GigaOm shot his video. While this video won\u00b4t make it to the most watched videos it gives an excellent explanation of why WiFi keeps growing exponentially around the world. In 2006 when Fon was founded there were around 200 million wifi chips made and this year will end with over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[77,41,78],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}