{"id":1454,"date":"2013-10-28T12:06:33","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T02:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=1454"},"modified":"2013-10-28T11:08:40","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T01:08:40","slug":"the-tim-cook-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/the-tim-cook-era\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tim Cook Era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Gruber on last week&#8217;s Apple event:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The march of time is inexorable. Product by product, keynote by keynote, we are seeing the post-Steve Jobs Apple emerge. The \u201cThis never would have happened if Jobs were still around\u201d vein of Apple punditry will be with us for decades to come. Most of it is deeply misguided. But some of it rings true. Apple today is a different company than it would be if Jobs were still there. No one denies this, inside or outside the company.<\/p>\n<p>But what are those differences? I\u2019m going to go out on a limb and name one: iOS 7.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not going to pretend to know Jobs\u2019s taste \u2014 no one could, that\u2019s what made Steve Jobs Steve Jobs \u2014 but I can certainly make a guess, and my guess is that he would not have supported this direction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think this is really interesting. Makes me wonder what John means exactly by &#8216;direction&#8217;? Aesthetics?<span style=\"line-height: 1.55;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.55;\">Dynamics?<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.55;\">\u00a0Complexity? Lack of stitched leather?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I think anyone who knows anything about tech is aware that iOS is the lynchpin for modern Apple&#8217;s success. To move that platform forward\u2014with confidence and sureness\u2014must be incredibly daunting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Gruber on last week&#8217;s Apple event: The march of time is inexorable. Product by product, keynote by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[13,128,69,127,126],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}