{"id":3105,"date":"2010-01-27T21:36:20","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T02:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=3105"},"modified":"2010-01-27T21:36:20","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T02:36:20","slug":"repostjobs-doesnt-just-want-to-produce-glamorous-gizmos-he-wants-to-be-the-impresario-of-all-media-hello-ipad-goodbye-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/27\/repostjobs-doesnt-just-want-to-produce-glamorous-gizmos-he-wants-to-be-the-impresario-of-all-media-hello-ipad-goodbye-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost:Jobs doesn\u2019t just want to produce glamorous gizmos. He wants to be the impresario of all media.: Hello iPad, Goodbye PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Apple endured its darkest days during the early 1990s, when the PC had lost its original magic and turned into a drab, utilitarian tool. Buyers flocked to Dell\u2019s cheap, beige boxes. C<strong>omputing back then was all about the programs. Now, computing is all about the programming &#8211; the words and sounds and pictures and conversations that pour out of the Internet\u2019s cloud and onto our screens.<\/strong> Computing, in other words, has moved back closer to the ideal that Steve Jobs had when he founded Apple. <strong>Today, Jobs\u2019s ambitions are grander than ever. His overriding goal is to establish his company as the major conduit, and toll collector, between the media cloud and the networked computer.<\/strong><br \/>\nJobs doesn\u2019t just want to produce glamorous gizmos. He wants to be the impresario of all media.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/archives\/2010\/01\/the_ipads_lofty.php\">Rough Type: Nicholas Carr&#8217;s Blog: Hello iPad, Goodbye PC<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple endured its darkest days during the early 1990s, when the PC had lost its original magic and turned into a drab, utilitarian tool. Buyers flocked to Dell\u2019s cheap, beige boxes. Computing back then was all about the programs. Now, computing is all about the programming &#8211; the words and sounds and pictures and conversations &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/27\/repostjobs-doesnt-just-want-to-produce-glamorous-gizmos-he-wants-to-be-the-impresario-of-all-media-hello-ipad-goodbye-pc\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost:Jobs doesn\u2019t just want to produce glamorous gizmos. He wants to be the impresario of all media.: Hello iPad, Goodbye PC&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}