{"id":3037,"date":"2011-08-04T07:12:44","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T14:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=3037"},"modified":"2011-08-04T07:12:44","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T14:12:44","slug":"the-end-of-the-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=3037","title":{"rendered":"The End of the Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve long said it: Apple is a software company. They also make hardware customized to run their software.<\/p>\n<p>In the article (linked below), it&#8217;s predicted that iOS and Apple OS X will eventually merge. Apple hardware will eventually change so that your iPhone, iPad, and Mac computers will all run the same operating system. I&#8217;m not happy with that.<\/p>\n<p>There is a philosophical difference between a computer and a mobile device. The first creates information, the second consumes it. If it&#8217;s Apple&#8217;s intent to turn all their hardware into information consuming devices, then Apple has lost me as a customer.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoy using Apple hardware, mostly because it&#8217;s Unix but Apple makes good hardware. If Apple turns my powerful desktop workstation (currently a Core 7 iMac) into a large iPad, then I&#8217;m done. I&#8217;ll set up a Linux or FreeBSD box to sate my Unix lusts, but otherwise I&#8217;ll have to surrender to Microsoft and Windows if I want to continue to use a real computer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.appleinsider.com\/articles\/11\/08\/03\/apple_seen_merging_ios_mac_os_x_with_custom_a6_chip_in_2012.html\" target=\"_blank\">Article Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve long said it: Apple is a software company. They also make hardware customized to run their software. In the article (linked below), it&#8217;s predicted that iOS and Apple OS X will eventually merge. Apple hardware will eventually change so that your iPhone, iPad, and Mac computers will all run the same operating system. I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wambooli-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3038,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037\/revisions\/3038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}