{"id":7,"date":"2010-01-29T10:11:50","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T09:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandrollette.com\/blog\/?p=7"},"modified":"2010-01-29T10:19:50","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T09:19:50","slug":"apple-a-counter-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dandrollette.com\/blog\/?p=7","title":{"rendered":"Apple: a counter opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dandrollette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/iPad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8\" title=\"iPad\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandrollette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/iPad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"433\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.dandrollette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/iPad.jpg 433w, http:\/\/www.dandrollette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/iPad-300x190.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>In the midst of all the hype back-and-forth about the pluses and minuses of the new iPad, here&#8217;s a clever little opinion piece from a newspaper that I read on the plane back from the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE conference in Barcelona. It&#8217;s from a few months ago, but still relevant. If nothing else, it certainly brought a smile to my face &#8212; despite the repeatedly delayed flight and the trio of crying babies in the seats around me:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t care if Mac stuff is cool. I don&#8217;t care if every Mac product comes equipped with a magic button on the side that causes it to piddle gold coins and resurrect the dead and make holographic unicorns dance inside your head. I&#8217;m not buying one, so shut up and go home. Go back to your house. I know, you&#8217;ve got an iHouse. The walls are brushed aluminum. There&#8217;s a glowing Apple logo on the roof. And you love it there. You absolute MONSTER.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The rest can be found at the UK newspaper &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2009\/sep\/28\/charlie-brooker-microsoft-mac-windows\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/> <input id=\"jsProxy\" onclick=\"jsCall();\" type=\"hidden\" \/> <input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/> <input id=\"jsProxy\" onclick=\"jsCall();\" type=\"hidden\" \/> <input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/> <input id=\"jsProxy\" onclick=\"jsCall();\" type=\"hidden\" \/><\/p>\n<p><input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/><input id=\"jsProxy\" onclick=\"jsCall();\" type=\"hidden\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the midst of all the hype back-and-forth about the pluses and minuses of the new iPad, here&#8217;s a clever little opinion piece from a newspaper that I read on the plane back from the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE conference in Barcelona. It&#8217;s from a few months ago, but still relevant. If nothing else, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dandrollette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dandrollette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dandrollette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dandrollette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dandrollette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dandrollette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dandrollette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dandrollette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dandrollette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}