{"id":2749,"date":"2011-07-20T10:08:14","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T14:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/?p=2749"},"modified":"2011-07-20T10:08:14","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T14:08:14","slug":"macbook-air-is-where-the-icloud-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/07\/20\/macbook-air-is-where-the-icloud-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2605 MacBook Air is where the iCloud lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/160933\/2011\/07\/ihnatko_icloud_macbook_air.html\">Andy Ihnatko:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two Highly Curious Objects arrived in my office recently and have provoked many hours of blank stares and idle speculation: a tube of sunblock and a Google Chromebook.<\/p>\n<p>A piece of mail that arrived later in the week revealed that the sunblock was a gimmick to promote a backup service. So: one mystery was solved. I\u2019m still stymied about the Chromebook.<\/p>\n<p>The basic concept is simple enough. The idea is to have a whole class of computers that act as nothing more than host organisms for the Google Chrome browser. Everything else\u2014apps, documents, media, and even the set of scratches that the buckle of your watchband makes on the palmrest of an old-fashioned and obsolete notebook, I suppose, exist solely on Google\u2019s servers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I love Andy&#8217;s writing. This piece is worth a read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andy Ihnatko: Two Highly Curious Objects arrived in my office recently and have provoked many hours of blank&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-Il","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5915,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/05\/25\/linked-why-i-bought-a-chromebook-instead-of-a-mac\/","url_meta":{"origin":2749,"position":0},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Why I Bought a Chromebook Instead of a Mac&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"May 25, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"via Gizmodo: The biggest consideration was price. 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