{"id":649,"date":"2007-06-17T20:03:26","date_gmt":"2007-06-18T03:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.macnightowl.com\/2007\/06\/17\/newsletter-394-preview-is-apple-taking-us-back-to-the-1990s\/"},"modified":"2008-03-25T15:03:27","modified_gmt":"2008-03-25T22:03:27","slug":"newsletter-394-preview-is-apple-taking-us-back-to-the-1990s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2007\/06\/newsletter-394-preview-is-apple-taking-us-back-to-the-1990s\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter #394 Preview: Is Apple Taking Us Back to the 1990s?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you remember the first great browser war era of the last decade? In this corner, there was Netscape, and in the far corner, coming up faster than anyone expected, was Microsoft. At the time, Microsoft actually did a smart thing. They built a better application, so it wasn&#8217;t just a matter of tying it irretrievably to the Windows platform. 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