{"id":183110,"date":"2015-03-11T20:32:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T01:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/03\/11\/tech-headline-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2015-03-11T20:32:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T01:32:00","slug":"tech-headline-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/03\/11\/tech-headline-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Headline of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2015\/mar\/10\/nine-reasons-only-a-tool-would-buy-the-apple-watch\"><b><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">Nine reasons only a tool would buy the Apple Watch<\/span><\/b><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>While Apple has had its share of failures, the Newton comes to mind, but the Apple Watch is the first time I&#8217;ve seen an Apple product reviled as lame pander to &#8220;Trustifarian&#8221; rich kids.<\/p>\n<p>Since the original MacIntosh, Apple has always sold its products on its chic elegance and its tightly controlled (and intuitive) interface, but it has always had a subtext of Apple producing &#8220;The Computer for the rest of us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is not &#8220;The Computer for the rest of us&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>What has attracted the most attention is the $17,000 (\u00a313,500) solid gold version, and it casts the entire watch product line as a bloated <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Veblen_good\">Veblin good<\/a>.<sup>*<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>People like status objects, but they do not like to be made fools of, and this product screams, &#8220;More money than brains.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Named after economist <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thorstein_Veblen\">Thorstein Veblin<\/a>, who in his seminal work <i><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Theory_of_the_Leisure_Class\" title=\"The Theory of the Leisure Class\">The Theory of the Leisure Class<\/a><\/i>, coined the term &#8220;Conspicuous consumption&#8221;, and detailed how some items, like a solid gold Apple Watch, serve no purpose beyond status markers.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine reasons only a tool would buy the Apple Watch. While Apple has had its share of failures, the Newton comes to mind, but the Apple Watch is the first time I&#8217;ve seen an Apple product reviled as lame pander to &#8220;Trustifarian&#8221; rich kids. Since the original MacIntosh, Apple has always sold its products on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1060,973,1148,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-economy","category-fashion","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}