{"id":32599,"date":"2018-03-05T00:00:40","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T07:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.com\/?p=32599"},"modified":"2018-03-05T07:58:36","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T14:58:36","slug":"newsletter-issue-953-if-at-first-you-cant-compete-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2018\/03\/newsletter-issue-953-if-at-first-you-cant-compete-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter Issue #953: If at First You Can&#8217;t Compete, Lie!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long before the phrase \u201cfake news\u201d began to occupy the nation\u2019s political dialogue, one tech company was constantly the subject of stories often made up out of whole cloth. Not just rumors, but claims that something was factual, or accepted fact, even though the reverse was true.<\/p>\n<p>I think back to the early days of the Mac. 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