{"id":213,"date":"2011-12-13T08:00:53","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T13:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/?p=213"},"modified":"2013-12-26T15:40:53","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T20:40:53","slug":"apple-fanboy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wrote-about\/apple-fanboy\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Fanboy"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Apple fanboy: Someone who is tired of technology being difficult and knows there is something better; someone that loves to get the job done instead of working on their machine; a person that isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t afraid of breaking the status quo; someone that appreciates quality design and workmanship; a person that realizes cheapest isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t always best.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loopinsight.com\/2011\/12\/12\/definition-of-an-apple-fanboy-and-those-that-use-the-term\/\">Definition of an \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcApple fanboy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and those that use the term<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I bought my first MacBook because I was tired of tinkering.<br \/>\nI was tired of fighting malware.<br \/>\nI was tired of half-assed software.<br \/>\nI was tired of program that never worked quite right.<br \/>\nI was tired of using subpar solutions.<br \/>\nI was tired of things that never lived up to their promise.<br \/>\nI was tired of my computer being something to be worked on.<br \/>\nI was tired.<\/p>\n<p>When I bought my first MacBook I used my computer.<br \/>\nI abused my computer.<br \/>\nI left it running for days.<br \/>\nI designed.<br \/>\nI wrote.<\/p>\n<p>I had a computer that got out of my way and let me work. I didn&#8217;t have to worry about it. I didn&#8217;t have to wonder if I&#8217;d come home to a blue screen. I didn&#8217;t have to wonder if one of my applications had mysteriously stopped working. I didn&#8217;t have to wonder if I would have a working computer. I spend my days as a computer technician so fixing computers has never been a problem. However, the last thing I wanted to do when I got home was work on another computer.<\/p>\n<p>It sounds trite, but Apple computers <em>just work<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple fanboy: Someone who is tired of technology being difficult and knows there is something better; someone that loves to get the job done instead of working on their machine; a person that isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t afraid of breaking the status quo; someone that appreciates quality design and workmanship; a person that realizes cheapest isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t always best. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"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}},"categories":[1],"tags":[49,147,249],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wrote-about","tag-apple","tag-computers","tag-fanboy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1546,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions\/1546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}