{"id":857,"date":"2005-03-12T14:07:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-12T19:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/wp\/2005\/03\/12\/buying-your-next-computer\/"},"modified":"2005-03-12T14:07:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-12T19:07:00","slug":"buying-your-next-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/12\/buying-your-next-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"Buying your next computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>During the time Steve Jobs has run the company, Apple has been hostile to truly independent journalism about its products and policies. This current attack on journalism &#8212; and that is precisely what is going on here &#8212; reflects the side of Jobs that will someday lead the company back down from its current heights. He is a genius, no question, but he is a control freak who doesn&rsquo;t seem to care whatsoever that he&rsquo;s infuriating some natural allies.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m writing this on a Mac. If I were buying a replacement today, I&rsquo;m not at all sure I&rsquo;d make the same choice again.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From Dan Gillmor&rsquo;s blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/dangillmor.typepad.com\/dan_gillmor_on_grassroots\/2005\/03\/apples_trade_se.html\">Grassroots Journalism, etc<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As it is often the case with blog posts, the truly interesting part is <a href=\"http:\/\/dangillmor.typepad.com\/dan_gillmor_on_grassroots\/2005\/03\/apples_trade_se.html#comments\">in the comments<\/a> following Gillmor&rsquo;s opinion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the time Steve Jobs has run the company, Apple has been hostile to truly independent journalism about its products and policies. This current attack on journalism &#8212; and that is precisely what is going on here &#8212; reflects the side of Jobs that will someday lead the company back down from its current heights.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/12\/buying-your-next-computer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Buying your next computer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}