{"id":7834,"date":"2002-10-17T15:53:32","date_gmt":"2002-10-17T15:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=7834"},"modified":"2002-10-17T15:53:32","modified_gmt":"2002-10-17T15:53:32","slug":"imitation-is-the-quickest-way-to-market-share","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=7834","title":{"rendered":"Imitation is the Quickest Way to Market Share"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" valign=top align=left src=\"http:\/\/www.timtate.com\/streettech.com\/storypics\/NomadZen.gif\" align=\"right\"> Yet another sleek and stylish iPod pretender is on its way from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creative.com\">Creative<a>, maker of the famed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomadworld.com\/\">Nomad<\/a> line of MP3 players. This one, called the Zen, is a 10 gig hard-drive based MP3\/WMA player. It comes with both USB 1.1 and firewire ports, and its sleek aluminium exterior measures just 3&#8243; x 4.4&#8243; x 1&#8243; and weighs about 9 oz. Price and availability unknown, but the specs are available from the <a href=\"http:\/\/japan.creative.com\/products\/digitalaudio\/zen\/\">Japanese website<\/a>. Translate through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.altavista.com\/babelfish\">Babelfish<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p> <font color=\"red\">Update:<\/font> The Nomad Zen is now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creative.com\">available<\/a> with 20 gig drive for $350. <\/p>\n<p> <font color=\"red\">Update 2:<\/font> It&#8217;s only $300 with the $50 rebate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another sleek and stylish iPod pretender is on its way from Creative, maker of the famed Nomad line of MP3 players. This one, called the Zen, is a 10 gig hard-drive based MP3\/WMA player. It comes with both USB 1.1 and firewire ports, and its sleek aluminium exterior measures just 3&#8243; x 4.4&#8243; x &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=7834\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Imitation is the Quickest Way to Market Share&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}