{"id":986,"date":"2014-07-08T07:55:23","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T14:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=986"},"modified":"2014-07-07T22:22:23","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T05:22:23","slug":"a-great-quote-on-apple-vs-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/08\/a-great-quote-on-apple-vs-google\/","title":{"rendered":"A great quote on Apple vs. Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love <a href=\"http:\/\/www.subtraction.com\/2014\/07\/02\/smarty-pins\/\">this bit from Khoi Vinh<\/a>, occasioned by Google\u2019s recent Smarty Pins map\/trivia game:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Apple fans like myself often criticize Google for doing things that Apple would never do, and Smarty Pins is a prime example of that. Aside from being an unfair criticism, it\u2019s pointless. The fact that Google endeavors to produce silly things like this is on the whole a positive thing, I believe. It\u2019s acting according to its own compass, which is what every company should be doing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>At Adobe I used to say, \u201cWe\u2019ll never out-Apple Apple. We\u2019ll never be more mysterious &amp; magical, so let\u2019s be ourselves\u2014conversational and down-to-earth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-full-text-of-steve-jobs-stanford-commencement-speech-2011-10\">as Steve Jobs said<\/a>, &#8220;Your time is limited, so don&#8217;t waste it living someone else&#8217;s life.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love this bit from Khoi Vinh, occasioned by Google\u2019s recent Smarty Pins map\/trivia game: Apple fans like myself often criticize Google for doing things that Apple would never do, and Smarty Pins is a prime example of that. Aside from being an unfair criticism, it\u2019s pointless. The fact that Google endeavors to produce silly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions\/987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}