{"id":7299,"date":"2013-04-15T13:17:19","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T18:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=7299"},"modified":"2013-04-15T13:17:20","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T18:17:20","slug":"apple-unfortunately-no-longer-the-underdog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/15\/apple-unfortunately-no-longer-the-underdog\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple: Unfortunately, No Longer the Underdog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/2033728\/apple-unfortunately-no-longer-the-underdog.html\">Cabel Sasser<\/a> has a nice piece about no longer being fringe:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/2033728\/apple-unfortunately-no-longer-the-underdog.html\"><p>If Apple can find that comfortable middle, we&rsquo;re set. With keynotes still watched closely, but constant flying-car expectations mellowed out. Innovating constantly, but at a possibly more relaxed pace, so that those innovations can truly stand out. Still pushing the industry, but still with something to prove.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;So that those innovations can truly stand out&rdquo; is my new favorite euphemism.<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/2033728\/apple-unfortunately-no-longer-the-underdog.html\"><p>If all else fails, Apple, take solace in this inarguable fact: We&mdash;the nerds&mdash;will always be there for you. As long as you don&rsquo;t dump too much DRM in our dingles, or donate all your proceeds to dolphin-harvesting, we&rsquo;ll buy every new thing, and hang on every word.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I was surprised that Sasser ended his article this way. If the Amiga and Mac users of yore were teenagers today, would they really choose iOS?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cabel Sasser has a nice piece about no longer being fringe: If Apple can find that comfortable middle, we&rsquo;re set. With keynotes still watched closely, but constant flying-car expectations mellowed out. Innovating constantly, but at a possibly more relaxed pace, so that those innovations can truly stand out. Still pushing the industry, but still with [&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":[248,38,295,31,30],"class_list":["post-7299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-android","tag-apple","tag-history","tag-ios","tag-mac"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7299","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=7299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7300,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7299\/revisions\/7300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}