{"id":1372,"date":"2010-08-10T00:14:39","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T04:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/?p=1372"},"modified":"2010-08-10T00:19:39","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T04:19:39","slug":"flexing-his-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/1372\/flexing-his-power","title":{"rendered":"Flexing His Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brent Simmons <a href=\"http:\/\/inessential.com\/2010\/08\/09\/flexibility_and_power\">makes the case<\/a> for power of software as a more admirable quality than flexibility:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It may go against the grain a little bit, but I\u2019ll say it: I\u2019m incredibly excited for the future of Mac software. I don\u2019t expect we\u2019ll make software that looks and feels like iOS apps (we shouldn\u2019t), but I do expect we\u2019ll learn from iOS apps how power is the real goal, and that flexibility is just a tool to use exceedingly sparingly, only when it substantially increases power.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I like, no &#8230; I LOVE the idea of learning from iOS apps, in order to build superb Mac apps.<\/p>\n<p>As many of you know, I don&#8217;t believe the Mac is dead, and it should go without saying I don&#8217;t believe iPhone or iPad is dead.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re on the brink of an Apple-dominated consumer-electronics era, and we&#8217;re in charge of making the software good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brent Simmons makes the case for power of software as a more admirable quality than flexibility: It may go against the grain a little bit, but I\u2019ll say it: I\u2019m incredibly excited for the future of Mac software. I don\u2019t expect we\u2019ll make software that looks and feels like iOS apps (we shouldn\u2019t), but I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iphone","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1372"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1383,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions\/1383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}