{"id":207,"date":"2006-10-17T15:11:39","date_gmt":"2006-10-17T22:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/207\/taking-the-blame"},"modified":"2006-10-17T15:13:18","modified_gmt":"2006-10-17T22:13:18","slug":"taking-the-blame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/207\/taking-the-blame","title":{"rendered":"Taking The Blame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple shipped a Windows virus on a very small number of iPods, but like a child who can&#8217;t say sorry without adding a &#8220;but&#8221; clause, their announcement falls short of complete contrition.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;As you might imagine, we are upset at Windows for not being more hardy against such viruses, and even more upset with ourselves for not catching it.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nJohn Gruber <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2006\/october#tue-17-ipod_windows_virus\">picked up on<\/a> the inappropriateness of this language, and I agree. Let me see if I   have this straight. When making commercials, Apple celebrates Windows&#8217;s greater susceptibility to viruses, but when the problem actually bites <em>them<\/em> in an embarrassing way, it&#8217;s time for exasperated anger.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nYou can&#8217;t have it both ways, Apple. If you&#8217;re gonna run in that race you have to play by those rules. Would it be nice for Windows to improve its resilience to viruses? Sure. But <em>in that culture<\/em>, one of the ways viruses are controlled is through diligence by vendors in not redistributing them. There&#8217;s nobody to blame here but yourselves.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis is a great example of a situation where a simple confession would have been best. &#8220;Yes. We did it. We&#8217;re sorry. Let&#8217;s move on.&#8221; Or, applying a simple edit to their actual statement:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;As you might imagine, we are upset with ourselves for not catching it.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nYes, that I <em>can imagine.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple shipped a Windows virus on a very small number of iPods, but like a child who can&#8217;t say sorry without adding a &#8220;but&#8221; clause, their announcement falls short of complete contrition. &#8220;As you might imagine, we are upset at Windows for not being more hardy against such viruses, and even more upset with ourselves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,30,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-business","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","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=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}