{"id":207,"date":"2003-02-08T13:50:11","date_gmt":"2003-02-08T18:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=207"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"being_better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/08\/being_better\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\n<a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2003\/02\/operatic.html\">John Gruber<\/a>:\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2003\/02\/operatic.html\">\n\nThe only way to see the Mac as unsuccessful is to compare it to Windows on Microsoft&rsquo;s terms&mdash;market share and raw profit. And that&rsquo;s exactly how analysts and the PC press cover the Mac.\n\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2003\/02\/operatic.html\">\n\nThere is a difference between when Apple steps on the toes of cross-platform developers like Opera and Netscape, and when they do it to Mac-only developers like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.karelia.com\/watson\/\">Karelia<\/a>. Watson is exactly the sort of third-party software Apple needs for the Mac: original, useful, fun, and <em>only for the Mac<\/em>. Opera is exactly what Apple doesn&#8217;t need: exactly like the Windows version, but six months behind.\n\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>That and Microsoft was right: the operating system should include a browser. WebKit will be <em>huge<\/em> for Mac developers.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Gruber: The only way to see the Mac as unsuccessful is to compare it to Windows on Microsoft&rsquo;s terms&mdash;market share and raw profit. And that&rsquo;s exactly how analysts and the PC press cover the Mac. There is a difference between when Apple steps on the toes of cross-platform developers like Opera and Netscape, and [&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-207","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\/207","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=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}