{"id":24982,"date":"2016-05-09T00:00:36","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T07:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technightowl.com\/?p=24982"},"modified":"2016-05-08T16:12:28","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T23:12:28","slug":"newsletter-issue-858-focusing-on-apples-flaws-let-me-count-the-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2016\/05\/newsletter-issue-858-focusing-on-apples-flaws-let-me-count-the-ways\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter Issue #858: Focusing on Apple&#8217;s Flaws \u2014 Let Me Count the Ways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As many of you regular readers know full well, there has long been an overemphasis on Apple\u2019s real or perceived flaws. Why do this when they can do that instead? Why can\u2019t Apple be more like other companies? Why is Apple acting too much like other companies? Wait! Isn\u2019t that just a little contradictory? It should be one or the other, except for being a bit of both.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, it\u2019s easy to find people who will happily rant about what Apple could or should do, and why it\u2019s making a huge mistake not to do thus and so.<\/p>\n<p>Take the early days of the Mac, where Apple tried to carve its own space against Microsoft and the traditional PC. Many of the original complaints were about Macs using a pretty graphical interface, and the PC using a text-based interface, usually MS-DOS. Thus came the theory that real computers were supposed to be difficult to operate. If you believed in simplicity, you weren\u2019t a real computer user. You were using a toy.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Wait! 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