{"id":8260,"date":"2012-11-16T19:38:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-17T01:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8260"},"modified":"2012-11-16T19:38:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-17T01:38:00","slug":"weve-passed-peak-apple-its-all-downhill-from-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8260","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;ve passed peak Apple: it&#8217;s all downhill from here"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Why do I think Apple has passed its peak? There are a number of signs. The most visible recent one is the <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/apple\/2012\/09\/apple-ceo-tim-cook-apologizes-for-ios-6-maps-promises-improvements\/\">Maps debacle<\/a>. Replacing Google Maps with an obviously inferior experience shows how much Apple has changed. Apple&#8217;s success had been all about offering users the best possible experience; suddenly it is willing to give users a clearly worse experience to further its corporate interests &#8211; in this case its long-running dispute with Google. <strong>We might expect this sort of behaviour from Microsoft, but we don&#8217;t expect it from Apple.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2012\/nov\/07\/peak-apple\">We&#8217;ve passed peak Apple: it&#8217;s all downhill from here | Technology | guardian.co.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do I think Apple has passed its peak? There are a number of signs. The most visible recent one is the Maps debacle. Replacing Google Maps with an obviously inferior experience shows how much Apple has changed. Apple&#8217;s success &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8260\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[288,836],"class_list":["post-8260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-apple","tag-predictions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8261,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8260\/revisions\/8261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}