{"id":1570,"date":"2003-08-05T17:03:54","date_gmt":"2003-08-06T07:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/06\/the-movabletypemac-conspiracy\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T13:45:37","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T21:45:37","slug":"the-movabletypemac-conspiracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/05\/the-movabletypemac-conspiracy\/","title":{"rendered":"The MovableType\/Mac conspiracy&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' 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00:31:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:8146,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.boingboing.net&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/boingboing.net\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13857,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/introverting.nu\\\/weblog\\\/archives\\\/2003\\\/08\\\/is_six_apart_th.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Another IM conversation, investigating the MovableType\/Six Apart\/Mac\/Apple conspiracy&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <strong>Me:<\/strong> i&#8217;ve got a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/\" title=\"Blogger\">blogger<\/a> account for a side project of mine, but it&#8217;ll probably be moving to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.typepad.com\/\" title=\"TypePad\">TypePad<\/a> pretty soon<br \/>\n  <strong>Me<\/strong>: i can&#8217;t <em>do<\/em> anything on a free Blogger account, and if I&#8217;m going to give someone money, I&#8217;d rather have it be the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixapart.com\/\" title=\"SixApart\">Trotts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <strong>Phil:<\/strong> Keep it for testing at any rate, could you? I don&#8217;t really know anyone who uses Blogger and has a Mac.<br \/>\n  <strong>Phil:<\/strong> Other than me.<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>Me:<\/strong> sure, will do<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>Phil:<\/strong> The Mac populace seems to prefer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.movabletype.com\/\" title=\"Movable Type\">MT<\/a>, interestingly. Except the people at <a href=\"http:\/\/saladwithsteve.com\/osx\/\" title=\"Forwarding Address: OS X\">Forwarding Address: OS X<\/a>.<br \/>\n  <strong>Phil:<\/strong> Hm&#8230;. maybe I could get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\" title=\"Boing Boing\">Cory Doctorow<\/a> as a beta tester. That&#8217;d be amusing.<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>Me:<\/strong> i&#8217;ve noticed that, actually &#8211; been pleasantly surprised at how often Macs get mentioned on TP blogs<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>Phil:<\/strong> Interesting correlation, really, if you think about it.<br \/>\n  <strong>Phil:<\/strong> People who use Blogger often go on forums and curse about how unreliable and buggy it is.<br \/>\n  <strong>Phil:<\/strong> People who use Windows often go on forums and curse about how unreliable and buggy it is.<br \/>\n  <strong>Phil:<\/strong> People who use MT are often like &#8220;Look at this cool trick I can do with my blog!&#8221;<br \/>\n  <strong>Phil:<\/strong> People with Macs are often like &#8220;Look at this cool trick I can do with my Mac!&#8221;<br \/>\n  <strong>Phil:<\/strong> Do you see a trend?<br \/>\n  <strong>Phil:<\/strong> I think maybe Movable Type is the Mac of the blogging world.<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>Me:<\/strong> i think you just get in a mindset&#8230;using computer == dealing with bugs (if you&#8217;re on the Windows side)<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>Phil:<\/strong> Same way with Blogger.<br \/>\n  <strong>Phil:<\/strong> Using Blogger == dealing with bugs.<br \/>\n  <strong>Phil:<\/strong> Oh!<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>Me:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/introverting.nu\/weblog\/archives\/2003\/08\/is_six_apart_th.html\" title=\"Introverting.nu: Is Six Apart the new Apple?\">Is Six Apart the New Apple?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <strong>Phil:<\/strong> Yeah, I saw that.<br \/>\n  <strong>Phil:<\/strong> And (using Blogger\/using windows) == no help at all from the parent company.<br \/>\n  <strong>Phil:<\/strong> Well, except the UNIX geeks and developers.<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>Me:<\/strong> &#8216;zactly<br \/>\n  <strong>Me:<\/strong> and us Mac users are spoiled by the &#8220;It Just Works&#8221; syndrome<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>Phil:<\/strong> True.<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>Me:<\/strong> MT &#8220;just works&#8221; &#8211; and you never have to deal with the underlying code if you don&#8217;t want to<br \/>\n  <strong>Me:<\/strong> OS X &#8220;just works&#8221; &#8211; and you never have to deal with the terminal if you don&#8217;t want to<br \/>\n  <strong>Me:<\/strong> but in both cases, if you do want to, a whole world of new toys and possibilities open up<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>Phil:<\/strong> Hacks, plugins, new applications you&#8217;d never even thought of.<br \/>\n  <strong>Phil:<\/strong> And I could be talking about either one with that last sentence.<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>Me<\/strong>: bingo\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think we&#8217;ve got something here!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another IM conversation, investigating the MovableType\/Six Apart\/Mac\/Apple conspiracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2039,2040],"tags":[118,6,13,114,812,65,921,599,117],"class_list":["post-1570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-blog","tag-apple","tag-humor","tag-life","tag-microsoft","tag-movabletype","tag-technology","tag-typepad","tag-weblogs","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}