{"id":739,"date":"2005-02-02T16:51:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-02T16:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2005\/02\/02\/how-apple-will-take-over-world\/"},"modified":"2016-10-29T05:51:15","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T05:51:15","slug":"how-apple-will-take-over-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2005\/02\/02\/how-apple-will-take-over-world\/","title":{"rendered":"How Apple will take over the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, I admit it. I like conspiracy theories. I love the way that some people can take just enough fact, and start weaving together their own speculation with &#8220;what if?&#8221; scenarios, to come up with a really plausible theory.<\/p>\n<p>The computer\/Web world is full of these theories. Part of it comes from the phenomenal success (and subsequent jealousy\/envy\/admiration) of people like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. And a lot of it is because so many incredibly bright and talented people are working in that world every day.<\/p>\n<p>One of my favourite writers about the technology world is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/cringely\/about\/\">Robert X. Cringely<\/a>, who writes a weekly column that I never miss. I&#8217;ve written about him <a href=\"http:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2004\/10\/29\/i-want-my-mtv-or-whatever\/\">before<\/a> at least once. Probably more.<\/p>\n<p>His latest column talks about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macmini\/\">Mac Mini<\/a> one of Apple&#8217;s latest offerings. But what makes this latest column really fun is the stuff that some of his readers offer, about how Steve Jobs is going to take over the world.<\/p>\n<p>Read it yourself <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/cringely\/pulpit\/pulpit20050127.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And remember &#8212; it could be true&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, I admit it. I like conspiracy theories. I love the way that some people can take just enough fact, and start weaving together their own speculation with &#8220;what if?&#8221; scenarios, to come up with a really plausible theory. The computer\/Web world is full of these theories. Part of it comes from the phenomenal success [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p88Hib-bV","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1868,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions\/1868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}