{"id":13166,"date":"2012-10-08T00:00:21","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T07:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technightowl.com\/?p=13166"},"modified":"2012-10-07T14:06:25","modified_gmt":"2012-10-07T21:06:25","slug":"newsletter-issue-671-the-foolish-what-would-steve-do-argument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2012\/10\/newsletter-issue-671-the-foolish-what-would-steve-do-argument\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter Issue #671: The Foolish &#8220;What Would Steve Do&#8221; Argument"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One thing that&#8217;s certain with the current Mapgate controversy, and that is that the media never seems to tire of speculating what Steve Jobs would have done had he survived. This conversation seems to fill most every discussion about what Apple is up to, and what they&#8217;ve done. 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