{"id":630,"date":"2007-05-28T00:05:17","date_gmt":"2007-05-28T07:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.macnightowl.com\/2007\/05\/28\/newsletter-391-preview-will-mac-users-accept-being-normal\/"},"modified":"2008-03-25T15:10:25","modified_gmt":"2008-03-25T22:10:25","slug":"newsletter-391-preview-will-mac-users-accept-being-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2007\/05\/newsletter-391-preview-will-mac-users-accept-being-normal\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter #391 Preview: Will Mac Users Accept Being Normal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Mac users, the good old days weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t always so good. You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d go into a store to find some software, and be told there were very few titles for Mac users, or you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d find a few dusty boxes in the rear, in some out-of-the shelf. 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