{"id":170,"date":"2002-10-21T12:18:55","date_gmt":"2002-10-21T16:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=170"},"modified":"2002-10-21T12:18:55","modified_gmt":"2002-10-21T16:18:55","slug":"den-beste-digeste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/?p=170","title":{"rendered":"Den Beste Digeste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Stardate:<\/b> 20021020.1915 <br \/>\n<b>Word Count:<\/b> 2,979<br \/>\n<b>Title:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/denbeste.nu\/cd_log_entries\/2002\/10\/Acompulsiontorevisionism.shtml\">A Compulsion to Revisionism<\/a><br \/>\n<b>Impetus:<\/b> Irritation with benighted &#8220;Macolytes.&#8221;<br \/>\n<b>Thesis:<\/b> Apple, despite its small market share, acts like a monopoly because Mac users can procure most of their hardware only through Apple. For this and other reasons, the Mac&#8217;s hardware is in every way inferior to the PC&#8217;s. (Den Beste discusses mostly graphics, Apple&#8217;s pride and joy, and detours briefly into RAM.) Apple&#8217;s dishonest benchmarking, down to its very choice of Photoshop filters, is designed to hide these facts.<br \/>\n<b>Best Quote:<\/b> &#8220;Apple is presenting itself as a premium brand, but it&#8217;s using the cheapest components it can find.&#8221;<br \/>\n<b>Word to the Non-Technical:<\/b> You might enjoy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.corante.com\/bottomline\/20021001.shtml#9403\">Arnold Kling&#8217;s comment<\/a> more than the piece itself.<\/p>\n<p>(<b>Update:<\/b> Den Beste <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denbeste.nu\/cd_log_entries\/2002\/10\/USB2HardDisks.shtml\">runs<\/a>, or tries to run, some hard disk benchmarks.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stardate: 20021020.1915 Word Count: 2,979 Title: A Compulsion to Revisionism Impetus: Irritation with benighted &#8220;Macolytes.&#8221; Thesis: Apple, despite its small market share, acts like a monopoly because Mac users can procure most of their hardware only through Apple. For this and other reasons, the Mac&#8217;s hardware is in every way inferior to the PC&#8217;s. (Den <a href='https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/?p=170' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}