{"id":11838,"date":"2015-07-27T23:52:01","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T03:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=11838"},"modified":"2015-07-27T23:52:01","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T03:52:01","slug":"apple-at-its-most-pompous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/27\/apple-at-its-most-pompous\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple at Its Most Pompous"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Also amazing? The fact that there are over a million and a half capable, beautiful, inspiring apps on the App Store. And each and every one was reviewed and approved by a team of real live humans. With great taste. And great suggestions. And great ideas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

What irks here, fundamentally, is that Apple is taking<\/em> credit for the great apps in the App Store, rather than giving<\/em> credit to the third-party developers who make them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

Apple has gotten really, really good at making ads that show<\/em> the products, rather than talking<\/em> about them — remember the “Every Day<\/a>” series<\/a>? They’re still doing ads like that series<\/a>, but for the Watch. And, while I know they have to change things up every so often, these feel like a miss to me. They’re too smug, and too pompous for my tastes. I prefer the softer sell<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Apple: Also amazing? The fact that there are over a million and a half capable, beautiful, inspiring apps on the App Store. And each and every one was reviewed and approved by a team of real live humans. With great taste. And great suggestions. And great ideas. John Gruber: What irks here, fundamentally, is that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[91,38,31,663],"class_list":["post-11838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-apple","tag-ios","tag-marketing"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11839,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11838\/revisions\/11839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}