{"id":128,"date":"2008-03-23T09:23:39","date_gmt":"2008-03-23T13:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/?p=128"},"modified":"2008-03-23T09:23:39","modified_gmt":"2008-03-23T13:23:39","slug":"nothing-says-easter-like-a-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/?p=128","title":{"rendered":"Nothing says Easter like a rant&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I use iTunes at work to streak media from my server, primarily music.&#160; If anyone has iTunes, you may have noticed last week that Apple software update is now trying to force you to install Safari (Apple&#8217;s proprietary browser).&#160; I also read last week about Apple&#8217;s release of their iPhone SDK (software development kit) and Apple&#8217;s rules you can and can not make with their kit.&#160; In other words, they are legislating the software that companies are creating for their phone.&#160; By doing this, they are getting 3rd party software that only they approve, and use the talents of 3rd party companies and technogeeks to work for them without paying them.<\/p>\n<p>Didn&#8217;t Microsoft do this years ago with Windows and preinstalling software on it and get SUED for antitrust violations?&#160; What gives Apple the nerve to try to do the same?<\/p>\n<p>Now that Netscape is extinct because of Microsoft, Apple is pushing down the same lines Microsoft did years ago.&#160; Will this affect Mozilla Firefox (my browser of choice)?&#160; Mozilla took over 30% of market share of browsers the old fashion way&#8230;a quality, superior product and word of mouth.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>As of this summer, Bill Gates will remove himself from Microsoft to focus on his foundation.&#160; This leaves only one devil left.&#160; Maybe Steve Jobs should start a charity in Botswana and go live there.&#160; Here&#8217;s to John Lilly and may his company thrive.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Easter everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I use iTunes at work to streak media from my server, primarily music.&#160; If anyone has iTunes, you may have noticed last week that Apple software update is now trying to force you to install Safari (Apple&#8217;s proprietary browser).&#160; I also read last week about Apple&#8217;s release of their iPhone SDK (software development kit) and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}