{"id":5635,"date":"2010-05-26T16:44:19","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T20:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=5635"},"modified":"2010-05-26T16:51:22","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T20:51:22","slug":"apple-overtakes-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/05\/26\/apple-overtakes-microsoft\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple overtakes Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>From DSC:<\/strong><br \/>\nYears ago people thought I was crazy by purchasing one of the only Mac&#8217;s in the entire University. But it was the right call then, and it&#8217;s the right call still. Don&#8217;t get me wrong. I use a PC w\/ Windows XP constantly. I use Microsoft Office and it&#8217;s an excellent suite of applications. However, it&#8217;s not great for multimedia creation and Microsoft had\/has some serious self-imposed strikes against it:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Because of their ruthless way of doing business, Microsoft made it&#8217;s bed and now it&#8217;s lying in it<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333399;\">They never lead in the world of the Internet &#8212; they didn&#8217;t before and they still don&#8217;t<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333399;\">They didn&#8217;t believe they needed to play by others&#8217; standards &#8212; they made whatever standards they had\/wanted the defacto standards<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333399;\">They didn&#8217;t innovate nor do they have the culture for innovation.\u00a0 In many ways, their  culture is the wrong one for what&#8217;s needed today.<strong> <\/strong><strong>The culture of an organization &#8212; and how one treats its customers &#8212; are extremely important<\/strong>. I always underrated the cultural piece; but in the last decade, I have seen how true that statement really is.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2010\/05\/26\/technology\/apple_microsoft\/index.htm\" target=\"blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5637\" title=\"5-26-10-apple-tops-ms-1\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/5-26-10-apple-tops-ms-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Apple overtakes Microsoft\" width=\"469\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/5-26-10-apple-tops-ms-1.jpg 469w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/5-26-10-apple-tops-ms-1-150x68.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 469px) 100vw, 469px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/27\/technology\/27apple.html\" target=\"blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5638\" title=\"5-26-10-apple-tops-ms-2\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/5-26-10-apple-tops-ms-2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Apple overtakes Microsoft\" width=\"606\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/5-26-10-apple-tops-ms-2.jpg 606w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/5-26-10-apple-tops-ms-2-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 606px) 100vw, 606px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back from March 12th:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5636\" title=\"apple-overtakes-walmart\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/apple-overtakes-walmart.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"464\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/apple-overtakes-walmart.jpg 464w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/apple-overtakes-walmart-150x104.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 464px) 100vw, 464px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From DSC: Years ago people thought I was crazy by purchasing one of the only Mac&#8217;s in the entire University. But it was the right call then, and it&#8217;s the right call still. Don&#8217;t get me wrong. I use a PC w\/ Windows XP constantly. I use Microsoft Office and it&#8217;s an excellent suite of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,216],"tags":[639,680],"class_list":["post-5635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-microsoft","tag-apple","tag-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5635"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5650,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5635\/revisions\/5650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}