{"id":83,"date":"2016-09-08T08:55:36","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T08:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/crossing-over-to-the-dark-side\/"},"modified":"2016-09-08T08:55:36","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T08:55:36","slug":"crossing-over-to-the-dark-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/crossing-over-to-the-dark-side\/","title":{"rendered":"Crossing over to the dark side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oddly enough, privacy is important to me. &#0160;At one point I had my Facebook privacy so tight, people couldn&#39;t post to me.<\/p>\n<p>I&#39;ve also been disappointed in the Windows Phone. &#0160;I love mobile phone and tablet technology and sadly Windows isn&#39;t keeping up. &#0160;Plus they are removing apps right and left from the Marketplace.<\/p>\n<p>So several months ago I tried an iPhone, and yes, I like it. &#0160;It&#39;s a iPhone 6S, and I liked it. &#0160;Especially the apps.<\/p>\n<p>However, I couldn&#39;t write apps with the tools I had. &#0160;Since then, I&#39;ve been trying out different solutions to the problem. &#0160;I have an old MacMini, and even with a memory upgrade, it&#39;s slow and hard to use. &#0160;I really like a laptop for development.<\/p>\n<p>Remoting in was slow and awkward also.<\/p>\n<p>Tried an old MacBook Pro from Best Buy (open box) and just wasn&#39;t happy. &#0160;I finally decided on a form factor I liked but went through 3 to find one that worked. &#0160; What DOES Best Buy do to their Macs when they are waiting to sell them.<\/p>\n<p>So now I&#39;m writing a book on how to write Apps with Swift. &#0160;It&#39;s fun, because I&#39;m working with one of my first tutoring students from college. &#0160;We&#39;re making good progress. &#0160;<\/p>\n<p>So now I have an iPhone and a MacBook &#8211; the latest one in Rose Gold. &#0160;High end, instead of the low end.<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oddly enough, privacy is important to me. &#0160;At one point I had my Facebook privacy so tight, people couldn&#39;t post to me. I&#39;ve also been disappointed in the Windows Phone. &#0160;I love mobile phone and tablet technology and sadly Windows isn&#39;t keeping up. &#0160;Plus they are removing apps right and left from the Marketplace. So [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}