{"id":17620,"date":"2014-03-24T00:00:15","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T07:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technightowl.com\/?p=17620"},"modified":"2014-03-23T12:41:51","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T19:41:51","slug":"newsletter-issue-747-apple-myths-never-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2014\/03\/newsletter-issue-747-apple-myths-never-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter Issue #747: Apple Myths Never Die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few days, I have had some ongoing discussions with someone over whether Macs can actually be used for work. Seems my adversary, so to speak, made it a point of how Macs were great consumer machines, but couldn&#8217;t be taken seriously for business.<\/p>\n<p>Now I don&#8217;t know about you, gentle reader, but when I began to respond to these statements, I thought I had somehow been transported back to another decade, in another century, because this is the sort of myth that was first presented about Macs beginning with the introduction of the very first one, in 1984.<\/p>\n<p>In those days, it was about the graphical user interface. Real PCs used text-based interfaces, and particularly Microsoft&#8217;s MS-DOS. These arguments were being made at the same time that Microsoft was busy doing what Google did decades later, which was to copy an Apple-built operating system.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Wait! 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