{"id":86,"date":"2006-03-06T21:15:39","date_gmt":"2006-03-07T04:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/?p=86"},"modified":"2006-03-06T21:15:39","modified_gmt":"2006-03-07T04:15:39","slug":"what-if-microsoft-marketed-the-ipod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/?p=86","title":{"rendered":"what if &#8230; microsoft marketed the ipod?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=aeXAcwriid0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/layer8.typepad.com\/layer_8\/images\/msftipod.jpg\" border=\"0\" height=\"187\" width=\"226\" alt=\"msftipod.jpg\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/\">Apple<\/a>&#8216;s design aesthetic &#8211; as manifest in industrial design, software usability, or GUI look and feel &#8211; is notably unique and, most would agree, &#8220;prettier&#8221; than that which otherwise prevails in the computer and consumer electronics industry.  Their product packaging is similarly attractive, as evidenced by the new <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/Apple\/?p=102\">MacBook Pro box<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I appreciate the pretty, but I&#8217;m much more interested in what&#8217;s inside the box (mmmm&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macbookpro\/\">MacBook Pro<\/a>&#8230;).  As such, I&#8217;ve never given much thought to specifically what makes the Apple aesthetic feel superior.  <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=aeXAcwriid0\">This video<\/a> demonstrating the hypothetical treatment of the iPod packaging by the Microsoft marketing group does a great job laying out the differences.  A worthwhile view.<\/p>\n<p>(While you&#8217;re watching videos, check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/cbs5.com\/watercooler\/local_story_059005903.html\">real-life fight club<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple&#8216;s design aesthetic &#8211; as manifest in industrial design, software usability, or GUI look and feel &#8211; is notably unique and, most would agree, &#8220;prettier&#8221; than that which otherwise prevails in the computer and consumer electronics industry. Their product packaging is similarly attractive, as evidenced by the new MacBook Pro box. Personally, I appreciate the <a href='https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/?p=86'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-tech","category-11-id","category-6-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}