{"id":2241,"date":"2011-04-13T08:35:23","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T12:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/?p=2241"},"modified":"2011-04-13T08:35:23","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T12:35:23","slug":"flip-camera-r-i-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/13\/flip-camera-r-i-p\/","title":{"rendered":"Flip Camera R.I.P."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cisco, the owners of the Flip camera brand, have announced that Flip cameras have gone the way of the dinosaur. \u00a0They are dead. \u00a0They are no more. \u00a0And they are never coming back. \u00a0So if you own a Flip camera, you have a piece of history (as well as a piece of technology that has been deemed obsolete).<\/p>\n<p>Cisco purchased the Flip camera brand just two years ago for $590 million. \u00a0But they&#8217;ve decided to discontinue the cameras&#8230;and their focus on the consumer market in general. \u00a0Cisco&#8217;s focus has always been on the business market and that&#8217;s what they are returning to.<\/p>\n<p>The death of the Flip camera was brought about by both Cisco&#8217;s preference for the business market and the fact that most cell phones these days can do everything Flip cameras could, as well as a million other things, for the same or lower price. \u00a0Plus plenty of competition. \u00a0The demise of the Flip camera will also lead to around 550 layoff&#8217;s at Cisco.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cisco, the owners of the Flip camera brand, have announced that Flip cameras have gone the way of the dinosaur. \u00a0They are dead. \u00a0They are no more. \u00a0And they are never coming back. \u00a0So if you own a Flip camera, you have a piece of history (as well as a piece of technology that has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[818,816,817],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2241"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2244,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241\/revisions\/2244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}