{"id":864,"date":"2006-11-09T11:31:18","date_gmt":"2006-11-09T11:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/is_apple_flatte\/"},"modified":"2006-11-09T11:31:18","modified_gmt":"2006-11-09T11:31:18","slug":"is_apple_flatte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/is_apple_flatte\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Apple Flattered?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you may know, Microsoft has introduced a new product (Zune) to compete with Apple&#8217;s I-Pod.&nbsp; This article from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/technology\/content\/nov2006\/tc20061108_782680.htm?sub=techmaven\">Business Week<\/a> gives a review and comparison.&nbsp; I wonder if Microsoft&#8217;s strategy is now related to waiting to see what&#8217;s &quot;hot&quot; and then duplicate.&nbsp; I just don&#8217;t see how waiting and seeing helps you in the long run.<\/p>\n<p>As in business, your life was not meant to be a duplicator.&nbsp; The best life lived is found in what you were &quot;wired&quot; to be.&nbsp; Go ask the average eighty-year old about this and you might be shocked by the tears of regret.<\/p>\n<p>Be who you are!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may know, Microsoft has introduced a new product (Zune) to compete with Apple&#8217;s I-Pod.&nbsp; This article from Business Week gives a review and comparison.&nbsp; I wonder if Microsoft&#8217;s strategy is now related to waiting to see what&#8217;s &quot;hot&quot; and then duplicate.&nbsp; I just don&#8217;t see how waiting and seeing helps you in the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}