{"id":9159,"date":"2010-11-30T00:18:26","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T00:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/11\/30\/the-great-thing-about-apple-is\/"},"modified":"2010-11-30T00:18:26","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T00:18:26","slug":"the-great-thing-about-apple-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/30\/the-great-thing-about-apple-is\/","title":{"rendered":"The  great thing about Apple is that all the hardware and software are designed to work together &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; like clockwork.  Orange that is.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nOr perhaps 1984 is a better analogy, and that would be rather poignant, considering that Apple is said to have made a huge initial impact years ago with its anti-1984 ad.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OYecfV3ubP8?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>We should have known then that a company using 1984 as a means of selling itself would eventually develop into its own Orwellian nightmare.<\/p>\n<p>The latest?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8230; a representative from developer relations informed the CEO of Mediaprovider, a small magazine publisher based in Denmark, that he couldn&#8217;t put a magazine about Google&#8217;s (GOOG) Android on the App Store.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mediaprovider&#8217;s Brian Dixon, the exchange went like this:<\/p>\n<p>    &#8220;So what&#8217;s the problem?&#8221; Dixon asked, knowing full well what the problem was.<\/p>\n<p>    &#8220;You know&#8230; your magazine,&#8221; replied the Apple rep, who identified himself only as Richard. &#8220;It&#8217;s just about Android&#8230;. we can&#8217;t have that in our App Store.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tech.fortune.cnn.com\/2010\/11\/26\/apple-bans-android-magazine-app\/\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apple is funny.  Not ha-ha funny, though. \/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; like clockwork. Orange that is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[57],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2nJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}