{"id":87598,"date":"2019-02-09T09:42:27","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T17:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/the-us-armys-strange-inspiration-for-its-next-rifle-the-iphone"},"modified":"2019-02-09T09:42:27","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T17:42:27","slug":"the-us-armys-strange-inspiration-for-its-next-rifle-the-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/the-us-armys-strange-inspiration-for-its-next-rifle-the-iphone","title":{"rendered":"The US Army\u2019s Strange Inspiration for Its Next Rifle: The iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-us-armys-strange-inspiration-for-its-next-rifle-the-iphone2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Basically, it sounds like the Army is looking to build a stable platform, like iOS, that it can build increasingly sophisticated weapon technologies on top of.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImagine that Steve Jobs and his engineers were trying to convert the iPod Touch to the first 3G iPhone,\u201d Caggins told <em>Task &amp; Purpose<\/em>. \u201cThere were a thousand technologies they could have put in the first iPhone but they were looking to mature the platform before they could actually go onto the system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/army-next-rifle-iphone-lethality\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/army-next-rifle-iphone-lethality<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basically, it sounds like the Army is looking to build a stable platform, like iOS, that it can build increasingly sophisticated weapon technologies on top of. \u201cImagine that Steve Jobs and his engineers were trying to convert the iPod Touch to the first 3G iPhone,\u201d Caggins told Task &amp; Purpose. \u201cThere were a thousand technologies [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}