{"id":36524,"date":"2014-01-09T21:40:08","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T20:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=36524"},"modified":"2020-08-18T14:06:20","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T13:06:20","slug":"apple-2c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/36524","title":{"rendered":"Apple 2c"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-36525\" alt=\"Apple 2c\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/apple3.jpg\" width=\"470\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/apple3.jpg 470w, https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/apple3-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/apple3-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/apple3-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Apple IIc, final design, 1983. According to Hartmut Esslinger, frog design was forced to edit and re-edit the design in response to petty criticisms from the Apple II team, whose &#8220;trivial technical arguments [masked] their NIH (Not Invented Here) syndrome \u2014 a dispiriting process I called &#8216;form follows ego.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy Hartmut Esslinger, from the book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/3897904071\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=19450&amp;creativeASIN=3897904071&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=iainclaridg0b-21\">Keep it Simple: The Early Design Years of Apple<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a title=\"Metropolis\" href=\"http:\/\/www.metropolismag.com\/Point-of-View\/December-2013\/A-Family-Perspective-On-Apples-Revolution\/index.php?cparticle=2&amp;siarticle=1\" target=\"_blank\">Metropolis<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple IIc, final design, 1983. According to Hartmut Esslinger, frog design was forced to edit and re-edit the design in response to petty criticisms from the Apple II team, whose &#8220;trivial technical arguments [masked] their NIH (Not Invented Here) syndrome \u2014 a dispiriting process I called &#8216;form follows ego.&#8217;&#8221; Courtesy Hartmut Esslinger, from the book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41,23,2,6],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36524"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36524"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51893,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36524\/revisions\/51893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}