{"id":753,"date":"2011-08-25T01:31:14","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T05:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=753"},"modified":"2011-08-25T01:42:06","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T05:42:06","slug":"apple-secession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=753","title":{"rendered":"Apple Secession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two notes on yesterday&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/24\/steve-jobs-resigns-as-apple-chief-executive\/?partner=rss&#038;emc=rss\">Steve Jobs Steps Down As Head of Apple<\/a>&#8221; news:<br \/>\n1. Last time Steve-o left, Apple did wonderful technical things for a while, because they still had the momentum in interesting directions, without the crazy.  A stable CEO and present Steve is creating basically the situation that *should* have happenened in &#8217;85 and &#8217;98, so perhaps Apple will be doing genuinely interesting things again for a while.<br \/>\n2. I was expecting various high profile news sources to fall over themselves trying to figure out the appropriate way to note that Apple&#8217;s succession plan means that an openly gay guy is now the CEO of the (sometimes) highest market cap company in the US, but except for <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5834151\/meet-apples-new-boss-the-most-powerful-gay-man-in-silicon-valley\">this Gizmodo article<\/a> (apparently now removed), no one seems to be biting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two notes on yesterday&#8217;s &#8220;Steve Jobs Steps Down As Head of Apple&#8221; news: 1. Last time Steve-o left, Apple did wonderful technical things for a while, because they still had the momentum in interesting directions, without the crazy. A stable &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=753\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,1],"tags":[157],"class_list":["post-753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-entertainment","category-general","tag-apple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}