{"id":4670,"date":"2012-04-16T10:47:12","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T15:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=4670"},"modified":"2012-04-16T10:47:18","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T15:47:18","slug":"icloud-vs-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/16\/icloud-vs-the-web\/","title":{"rendered":"iCloud vs. the Web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.manton.org\/2012\/04\/icloud_vs_the_web.html\">Manton Reece<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.manton.org\/2012\/04\/icloud_vs_the_web.html\"><p>If Web 2.0 made data more accessible, iCloud takes that same data and&#8230;keeps it closed. It&rsquo;s a step forward on user convenience and a step back on interoperability.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He thinks this is Apple&rsquo;s plan, that Apple isn&rsquo;t interested in solving the interoperability problem, and that&rsquo;s fine. I think it&rsquo;s a poor long-term strategy for Apple to cede the interesting cloud use cases to Web APIs and other companies.<\/p>\n<p>When Steve Jobs said that Dropbox was but a feature, perhaps he was revealing a blind spot. The cloud, or the Web, is more like a platform. If Apple doesn&rsquo;t want to provide the APIs, developers will find others to build on. This is probably good for the world at large, but it&rsquo;s somewhat of a missed opportunity for iCloud.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manton Reece: If Web 2.0 made data more accessible, iCloud takes that same data and&#8230;keeps it closed. It&rsquo;s a step forward on user convenience and a step back on interoperability. He thinks this is Apple&rsquo;s plan, that Apple isn&rsquo;t interested in solving the interoperability problem, and that&rsquo;s fine. I think it&rsquo;s a poor long-term strategy [&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-4670","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\/4670","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=4670"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4672,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4670\/revisions\/4672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}