{"id":21075,"date":"2007-06-27T12:40:12","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T18:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/archives\/2007\/06\/27\/guided-tours"},"modified":"2007-06-27T12:42:40","modified_gmt":"2007-06-27T18:42:40","slug":"guided-tours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/archives\/2007\/06\/27\/guided-tours","title":{"rendered":"Guided tour = this is gonna be big."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nWhen Apple decides to produce an extensive set of audiovisual introductory teaching materials, you can be sure they think they&#8217;re on to something that will:\n<\/p>\n<ol type=\"a\">\n<li><b>change everything,<\/b> but<\/li>\n<li><b>take a little explaining.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>To wit:<\/p>\n<dl compact=compact style=\"margin-left: 2em;\">\n<dt style=\"font-weight:bold;float:left;\">1984:<\/dt>\n<dd style=\"margin-bottom: 0.5em;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guidebookgallery.org\/tutorials\/mac1984\">Macintosh Guided Tour<\/a>.<\/dd>\n<dt style=\"font-weight:bold;float:left;\">2007:<\/dt>\n<dd><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/iphone\/usingiphone\/guidedtour.html\">iPhone Guided Tour<\/a>.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p>\nOn a related note: Does the presenter in the iPhone tour remind anyone else of the pixellated dude from the later Mac tour, &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guidebookgallery.org\/tutorials\/macintoshbasics50\">Macintosh Basics<\/a>&rdquo;?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/entries\/images\/2007\/macintosh-basics-guy.png\">\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"imagecaption\"><b>Fig. 1.<\/b> The Macintosh Basics guy.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 1.5em;\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/entries\/images\/2007\/iphone-tour-guy.jpg\">\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"imagecaption\"><b>Fig. 1.<\/b> The iPhone Guided Tour guy.<\/p>\n<p>The later incarnation trades the dorky white polo and rainbow Apple logotype pullover for a plain black T, but keeps the no-nonsense coiffure.  Also, um, his framerate is better this time around.<\/p>\n<p>Discuss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Apple decides to produce an extensive set of audiovisual introductory teaching materials, you can be sure they think they&#8217;re on to something that will: change everything, but take a little explaining. To wit: 1984: Macintosh Guided Tour. 2007: iPhone Guided Tour. On a related note: Does the presenter in the iPhone tour remind anyone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}