{"id":650417,"date":"2013-04-03T17:34:48","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T21:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=412925"},"modified":"2013-04-03T17:34:48","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T21:34:48","slug":"pioneering-computer-ui-architect-rips-apples-closed-ecosystem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/650417","title":{"rendered":"Pioneering computer UI architect rips Apple\u2019s closed ecosystem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/03\/alan-kay-apple-criticism-412925\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"700\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/alan-key.jpg?w=650&amp;h=700&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Alan Kay Apple Criticism\" title=\"Alan Kay\" \/><\/a><\/center>The computer industry would be much different if it wasn&#8217;t for Alan Kay. Not only did the computer pioneer&#8217;s work creating graphical user interfaces at Xerox PARC lead to future <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/apple\">Apple<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=aapl\">AAPL<\/a>) products such as the Lisa and the Mac, but his approach to computer design also inspired Steve Jobs, especially his belief that software developers should build their own hardware instead of relying on third-party OEMs. Despite his inspiration on Apple, however, Kay recently expressed his deep disappointment with the company\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/techland.time.com\/2013\/04\/02\/an-interview-with-computing-pioneer-alan-kay\/\">in an interview with <em>Time<\/em><\/a>. He pointed out that with the <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/ipad\">iPad<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/iphone\">iPhone<\/a> users are locked into Apple&#8217;s ecosystem and said that this &#8220;could not be farther from the original intentions of the entire ARPA-IPTO\/PARC community in the &#8217;60s and &#8217;70s.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/03\/alan-kay-apple-criticism-412925\/?utm_source=more-link&#038;utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/rhAVwdmOsaA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The computer industry would be much different if it wasn&#8217;t for Alan Kay. Not only did the computer pioneer&#8217;s work creating graphical user interfaces at Xerox PARC lead to future Apple (AAPL) products such as the Lisa and the Mac, but his approach to computer design also inspired Steve Jobs, especially his belief that software [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7439,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}