{"id":176,"date":"2003-01-19T23:10:23","date_gmt":"2003-01-20T04:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=176"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"apples_free_software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/19\/apples_free_software\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple&rsquo;s &ldquo;Free&rdquo; Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.panic.com\/~stevenf\/mt\/archives\/000160.php\">Steven Frank<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.panic.com\/~stevenf\/mt\/archives\/000160.php\">My position isn&rsquo;t really &ldquo;boo hoo, Apple should play nice&rdquo;&mdash;like everyone else, we&rsquo;ll do whatever we need to as a company to stay alive. It&rsquo;s just that a whole lot of cool stuff from a lot of cool companies is probably getting stifled. For better or worse, that&rsquo;s the hidden cost of free, bundled apps. As Ihnatko says, without competition, &ldquo;how can we be sure that we&rsquo;re getting the best software possible?&rdquo; In all likelihood, you&rsquo;re not.<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Frank: My position isn&rsquo;t really &ldquo;boo hoo, Apple should play nice&rdquo;&mdash;like everyone else, we&rsquo;ll do whatever we need to as a company to stay alive. It&rsquo;s just that a whole lot of cool stuff from a lot of cool companies is probably getting stifled. For better or worse, that&rsquo;s the hidden cost of free, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","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-176","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\/176","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}