{"id":80,"date":"2007-09-30T10:25:02","date_gmt":"2007-09-30T10:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=80"},"modified":"2007-09-30T10:25:02","modified_gmt":"2007-09-30T10:25:02","slug":"is-apple-morphing-in-to-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/is-apple-morphing-in-to-microsoft\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Apple morphing in to Microsoft &#8230;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In August the iPhone was hacked allowing users to choose which network they use.\u00a0 Now <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/7017660.stm\">Apple has issued an &#8220;update&#8221; that disables phones<\/a> that have been hacked.\u00a0 It also has disabled some phones that haven&#8217;t been hacked.\u00a0 The move demonstrates the collusive character of the mobile network in the US and illustrates a morphing of Apple from a lovable underdog pioneering user-friendly, well designed ICT into a paranoid monopolist afraid that its own products won&#8217;t stand the test of competition.\u00a0 Not nice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August the iPhone was hacked allowing users to choose which network they use.\u00a0 Now Apple has issued an &#8220;update&#8221; that disables phones that have been hacked.\u00a0 It also has disabled some phones that haven&#8217;t been hacked.\u00a0 The move demonstrates the collusive character of the mobile network in the US and illustrates a morphing of &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/is-apple-morphing-in-to-microsoft\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is Apple morphing in to Microsoft &#8230;?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ict"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-1i","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}