{"id":154,"date":"2007-12-18T09:19:26","date_gmt":"2007-12-18T08:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mohoyt.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/18\/apropos-engadget-among-others\/"},"modified":"2007-12-20T14:30:02","modified_gmt":"2007-12-20T13:30:02","slug":"apropos-engadget-among-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/2007\/apropos-engadget-among-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Apropos Engadget among others&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apropos <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.engadget.com\/~r\/weblogsinc\/engadget\/~3\/201633238\/\">Engadget\u2019s story on a new iPod dock<\/a> entitled \u201cJibe Audio&#8217;s Sound Machine iPhone dock &#8212; designed by Apple alumni.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The article states that this company&#8217;s new iPod dock is, and I quote, <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Designed in part by Robert Brunner who led Apple&#8217;s design team from 1989-1996, an era which birthed the Newton and the first Powerbooks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whilst this is true (I\u2019m not contesting this fact), I don\u2019t see the need to boast that this is by the same Apple alumni from \u201989 to \u201996 as this wasn\u2019t particularly the best era of Apple products. Think Performas, think Quadras, think unreliability, think no Steve Jobs and most importantly think different from what Apple is now\u2026 Why boast this? Seriously, I wouldn\u2019t buy one of these having known it was from the same design team that let the Performas be produced. What a bummer for that company\u2026 Then again, maybe they\u2019re proud of the Performas that they made and after all (according to the article) they did make the first Powerbooks, so they can\u2019t be that bad can they?<\/p>\n<p>Other exciting things that I have found all around include a glaring grammar mistake in Leopard! I mean a huge one! I\u2019m not on my iMac at the moment, so I can\u2019t grab a screenshot right now, but it involves this grammatically incorrect sentence: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2018None of your preferred wireless networks are (sic) available.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Terrible\u2026<\/p>\n<p>In other news, I have some freakin\u2019 sweet concert tickets for next year already lined up (at some cost). These would include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marsvolta.com\">The Mars Volta<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiohead.com\">Radiohead<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neilyoung.com\">Neil Young and Crazy Horse<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apropos Engadget\u2019s story on a new iPod dock<br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.engadget.com\/~r\/weblogsinc\/engadget\/~3\/201633238\/\">http:\/\/feeds.engadget.com\/~r\/weblogsinc\/engadget\/~3\/201633238\/<\/a>) entitled \u201cJibe Audio&#8217;s Sound Machine iPhone dock &#8212; designed by Apple alumni.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The article states that this company&#8217;s new iPod dock is, and I quote, \u201cDesigned in part by Robert Brunner who led Apple&#8217;s design team from 1989-1996, an era which birthed the Newton and the first Powerbooks.\u201d Whilst this is true (I\u2019m not contesting this fact), I don\u2019t see the need to boast that this is by the same Apple alumni from \u201989 to \u201996 as this wasn\u2019t particularly the best era of Apple products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac","category-randomness","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}