{"id":9056,"date":"2016-11-08T19:22:02","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T23:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nccomputertech.com\/?p=9056"},"modified":"2016-11-08T19:22:02","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T23:22:02","slug":"this-week-in-tech-587-leaving-the-apple-cult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nccomputertech.com\/techtalk\/2016\/11\/08\/this-week-in-tech-587-leaving-the-apple-cult\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week in Tech 587: Leaving the Apple Cult"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W-Re9bJSgjY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Days before the US elections, we discuss the preeminence of social media, the difficulty of fact checking, and the loss of trust in the media that has occured this year. Is Apple&#8217;s recent MacBook announcement an acknowledgement that they are no longer a Macintosh company? Samsung has received 85% of its recalled Note 7 phones &#8211; now they just have to get the 2.8 million potentially explosive diswashers they just recalled. Google home is out &#8211; how does it stack up against the Amazon Echo?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Leo asked the question &#8211; if Apple has lost their mojo, where will the next great innovation come from?<br \/>\n\u2022 Jason said Elon Musk will save the world.<br \/>\n\u2022 Peter said Snapchat will revolutionize how we interract with one another.<br \/>\n\u2022 Jonathan said there is a solder monkey tinkering away in a garage somewhere that will outdo them all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Days before the US elections, we discuss the preeminence of social media, the difficulty of fact checking, and the loss [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[610,1109],"class_list":["post-9056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-leo-laporte","tag-twit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/papNkV-2m4","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9040,"url":"https:\/\/nccomputertech.com\/techtalk\/2016\/10\/09\/this-week-in-tech-583-party-on-zuck\/","url_meta":{"origin":9056,"position":0},"title":"This Week in Tech 583: Party On, Zuck!","author":"NCCT","date":"October 9, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=-t8vKCu44mE Leo is back, and ready to discuss the latest tech topics with our favorite TWiT regulars!\u2022 Replacements for recalled Samsung Galaxy Note 7 arrive - 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