{"id":1564,"date":"2007-09-19T09:41:26","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T13:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/19\/the-beat-goes-on\/"},"modified":"2007-09-19T09:41:28","modified_gmt":"2007-09-19T13:41:28","slug":"the-beat-goes-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/19\/the-beat-goes-on\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beat Goes On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2007\/09\/beat_goes_on\">John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2007\/09\/beat_goes_on\"><p>What a browser needs is a network, but Jobs pitched it as the network needing the browser. It&rsquo;s silly if you think about it: if it weren&rsquo;t for Safari, the only thing you&rsquo;d be able to do on the iPod Touch with Wi-Fi is watch YouTube and buy songs from iTunes. Plus, presenting the inclusion of Safari as a sort of &ldquo;boy, isn&rsquo;t it cool that we did this&rdquo; feature draws attention away from the <em>exclusion<\/em> of Mail. There&rsquo;s been a lot less bitching about the Touch not including Mail than I expected&mdash;I think that&rsquo;s at least partly attributable to the way Jobs presented the inclusion of Safari.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Gruber: What a browser needs is a network, but Jobs pitched it as the network needing the browser. It&rsquo;s silly if you think about it: if it weren&rsquo;t for Safari, the only thing you&rsquo;d be able to do on the iPod Touch with Wi-Fi is watch YouTube and buy songs from iTunes. Plus, presenting [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-1564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564","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=1564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}