{"id":76,"date":"2010-12-11T21:37:37","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T21:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ironicallyenough.com\/blog\/?p=76"},"modified":"2010-12-11T21:37:37","modified_gmt":"2010-12-11T21:37:37","slug":"did-i-just-figure-out-steve-jobs%e2%80%99s-long-term-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ironicallyenough.com\/blog\/did-i-just-figure-out-steve-jobs%e2%80%99s-long-term-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Did I just figure out Steve Jobs\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s long-term strategy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think he realized during his NeXT days, if not earlier, that the keyboard as primary interface was, eventually way off in the future, bound to fall away in favor of StarTrek:TNG-style tablets, or futuristic 3d hand waving, or what have you. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been trying for ten if not thirty years, to push Apple\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ecosystem toward interface styles that are slightly annoyingly click-heavy, and making sure to ship the machines with the best damn clicking-around system in the world to make up for it. All with an eye toward more or less right now, when that crazy futuristic tech is finally beginning to exist, and the other platforms are all either fundamentally keyboard-centric or totally text-crippled.<\/p>\n<p>And if not for Google, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d have it all to themselves. Okay, even more so than they do now. (Or maybe Palm would have survived.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All with an eye toward more or less right now, when that crazy futuristic tech is finally beginning to exist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ironicallyenough.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ironicallyenough.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ironicallyenough.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ironicallyenough.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ironicallyenough.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ironicallyenough.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ironicallyenough.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ironicallyenough.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ironicallyenough.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}