{"id":526,"date":"2003-10-02T08:33:27","date_gmt":"2003-10-02T13:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2003\/10\/02\/sometimes-you-just-need-an-apple-story\/"},"modified":"2009-07-31T09:43:28","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T15:43:28","slug":"sometimes-you-just-need-an-apple-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2003\/10\/02\/sometimes-you-just-need-an-apple-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes, you just need an Apple story."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Lick Me, I'm A Macintosh \/ What the hell is wrong with Apple that they still give a damn about design and packaging and \"feel\"?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/gate\/archive\/2003\/10\/01\/notes100103.DTL\">Lick Me, I&#8217;m A Macintosh \/ What the hell is wrong with Apple that they still give a damn about design and packaging and &#8220;feel&#8221;?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Okay, so this article is a little over the top, but he does do a good job of explaining what that little connection that Apple users feel when they use their computers. I&#8217;ve often been asked, why do you use a Mac? Truth be told, all my computing could be handled by a Windows machine, sure, but there&#8217;s something else there. Like that old saying, &#8220;It&#8217;s the journey, not the destination.&#8221; Or similar to how funny and cool I think it is that I can roll up the windows and close the sunroof on my Golf with the key. I mean seriously, who thinks of that stuff?<\/p>\n<p>People who care about design, and I&#8217;m happy they&#8217;re still out there. And I&#8217;m hoping they don&#8217;t go away, before we&#8217;re all living the wal-mart existince.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is the point. Detail and nuance and texture and a sense of how users actually feel, what makes them smile, what makes the experience worthy and positive and sensual instead of necessary and drab and evil.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lick Me, I&#8217;m A Macintosh \/ What the hell is wrong with Apple that they still give a damn about design and packaging and &#8220;feel&#8221;? Okay, so this article is a little over the top, but he does do a good job of explaining what that little connection that Apple users feel when they use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[55],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-apple"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf4VN-8u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1427,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions\/1427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}