{"id":30735,"date":"2016-04-07T08:45:52","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T15:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=30735"},"modified":"2016-04-21T06:50:26","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T13:50:26","slug":"mediocrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2016\/04\/07\/mediocrity\/","title":{"rendered":"Mediocrity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Tim Cook&#8217;s Apple.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Along with blazing innovation &#8211; a larger iPad, the failed Apple Watch &#8211; what lands in my inbox the other day?<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/Apple_sucks.jpg\" width=\"693\" height=\"533\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>There was a reason Steve Jobs famously remarked that Apple did not do focus groups or customer surveys. The company was not Procter &#038; Gamble, selling dish detergents.  His company was in the business of innovation, meaning it told people what they needed &#8211; iPods, iPhones, iMacs, Mac Pros, MacBooks &#8211; not asking what they wanted.<\/p>\n<p>Now we have a CEO focused on trying to thwart the US government&#8217;s attempts &#8211; marketing disguised as customer protection &#8211; to keep Americans safe while making ever fancier watch bands, as Apple becomes just another mediocre non-growth business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Cook&#8217;s Apple. Along with blazing innovation &#8211; a larger iPad, the failed Apple Watch &#8211; what lands in my inbox the other day? There was a reason Steve Jobs famously remarked that Apple did not do focus groups or customer surveys. The company was not Procter &#038; Gamble, selling dish detergents. His company was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2016\/04\/07\/mediocrity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mediocrity<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30735"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30753,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30735\/revisions\/30753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}