{"id":9236,"date":"2014-10-30T08:20:26","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T16:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/?p=9236"},"modified":"2014-10-30T08:20:26","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T16:20:26","slug":"apple-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/2014\/10\/30\/apple-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>iPHONE 6<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Everybody thinks I have an Android.<\/p>\n<p>Malcolm Gladwell told me the problem with e-readers is no one knows what you&#8217;re reading, and for an author that&#8217;s anathema. The cover of the book sells the book, but if no one can see it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>No one can see I have an iPhone 6. I purchased the Apple case, but it&#8217;s grey and the Apple logo is very subtle and with my hand around it no one can see it, but to be truthful, I can barely see it.<\/p>\n<p>So, if you want pride of ownership, evidence that you laid down your cash and are a member of the cult, the iPhone 6 disappoints.<\/p>\n<p>One could posit it would be different with the 6 Plus, but the truth is that too looks like a Samsung product. It&#8217;s kind of like cars before BMW blew up the paradigm and then Hyundai ran with it. They all looked the same. Buildings too, until Philip Johnson took a chance with the AT&amp;T building.<\/p>\n<p>Are phones now a commodity?<\/p>\n<p>Or are they evidence we live in a software society, and it&#8217;s utility that counts. It&#8217;s not what you own, but what you have access to, what you rent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>iPAD<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of utility, are larger phones killing tablets?<\/p>\n<p>It appears so.<\/p>\n<p>The excitement and wonder have worn off tablets. They&#8217;re good for watching Netflix, but if it&#8217;s data you want, a large phone will do ya. And if you want to type, why not get an ultrathin laptop, like a MacBook Air or one of its Windows competitors.<\/p>\n<p>Ain&#8217;t that the way of technology, what was new and hip seemingly minutes ago is suddenly passe.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iPHONE 6 Everybody thinks I have an Android. Malcolm Gladwell told me the problem with e-readers is no one knows what you&#8217;re reading, and for an author that&#8217;s anathema. The cover of the book sells the book, but if no one can see it&#8230; No one can see I have an iPhone 6. I purchased [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p96vPs-2oY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9237,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9236\/revisions\/9237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}