indefensible: john gruber

kudos stet

He needs to stop calling his sources "little birdies", holy hell

To think people used to pay for his insight and now it's 5000 words about a single unimportant tech spec of the 8th iPhone

"now"

when the whole apple scene was a lot smaller and he'd get tidbits of data from people on the inside that actually seemed unique... it seems like a lifetime ago

now it's sites that do nothing but report every rumor getting leaked info directly from shenzhen factories

this is an interesting story that gruber is going to ruin https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/sports/baseball/boston-red-sox-stealing-signs-yankees.html?_r=1

heh

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/09/05/red-sox-cheat-yankees-with-apple-watch

"What is it with these New England teams and their need to cheat?"

its called caring abt winning duh

Apple considering buying the Bond franchise, grubes must be flipping out.

jfc

https://i.imgur.com/QVmvzxN.png

bwahahaha

the grand story of the iPhone has been spoiled

The iPhones 8

lol

Raise-to-wake works about as well as I could hope, but as someone who regularly wears mechanical watches, trust me, it’s no substitution for always being able to glance at your wrist for the time

as someone who is an expert in non-apple watches

Dhdjfkgjhs

the iphones 8

my god https://webkit.org/blog/7929/designing-websites-for-iphone-x/

Yeah I'm not doing that.

tbrr the css/layout frameworks used in everything will add like two rules for that device and no one else will care because catering stylesheets yourself stopped a decade ago

untrue but regardless making a screen that weird shape just so u cn pretend its ALL SCREEN is dumb

fair

Thank god Apple seeded Mike Allen with an iPhone X review unit. Such great insight from his fucking nephew, the emoji expert.

Thank god Apple seeded Fashion with a review unit.

Thank god Apple seeded these insightful critics with a review unit.

It *was* really weird how Apple handled the press on this launch. I wonder if it’s linked to the pasting the Watch 3 got from “proper” reviewers

u mad dog?

xpost

once again demonstrating his fearless willingness to tackle political issues

https://i.imgur.com/njCWlXx.png

Being a bit cavalier with his whole “we used the telephone a lot in my day, so there can’t possibly be a problem with these dopamine-driven horror-devices we have now” too

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2018/01/24/oxfam-inequality
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/05/11/cameron

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2018/03/30/hockey-nhl

What a tedious ignoramus he always is

Has that happened before/again in baseball or other sports? Two teams in the same sport in the same city -- not same region, but same city?

— Farhad Manjoo: bob honey who just do stuff (@fmanjoo) July 10, 2015

reminds me of one of my favorite tech writer tweets

lol that rules

I absolutely love Penn and Teller. I’ve seen their show in Vegas at least four times, maybe five

LOL

perfect

Season 1 of True Detective is one of my very favorite cinematic achievements of the decade, right up there with Mad Men, The Tree of Life, and Django Unchained. I’ll add Inception to make it a top 5 list.

Jesus fuckin' Christ

lol

perfect

what if theyre all just different levels of inception something to think about

i like how he just gave us inception for free. he didn't have to do that

hahahahaha

https://t.co/2QPyBdaP8M
~vs~https://t.co/snRyrI8OoD pic.twitter.com/HGuxZ4nTqA

— Richard Gaywood (@PenLlawen) September 24, 2018

He needs to dust off his yardstick

One of the biggest problems with Gruber in 2018 is everything Apple does has been comfortably boring since oh the iPhone 5S came out, yet he’s still out here breathlessly waiting on each new review unit like it’s a beacon, a yardstick by which his next six months will be measured or something.

At this point I consider Facebook a criminal enterprise. Maybe not legally, but morally.

this is word salad

My fondness and appreciation for 2001 is hard to convey. Most of it holds up remarkably well 50 years later. There are parts that still seem impossible, 50 years later. But what ultimately strikes me about 2001 is that it was an attempt by arguably the greatest filmmaker who ever lived to make the greatest movie ever made. Ultimately the work itself is what matters in judging any artistic achievement, but the sheer ambition behind 2001 staggers me whenever I contemplate it. From the scientific rigor to the stunning advances in special effects to the gorgeous 70mm cinematography to the mesmerizing editing and soundtrack, 2001 simply swells my heart.

I didn't used to think that the boring writing advice of "delete your adverbs" was worthwhile but now I do

they're not even the biggest problem with this paragraph though.

fuckin love scientific rigor

any and all scientific plausibility in that movie provided entirely by Arthur C. Clarke presumably

Had been waiting for someone to post this. Was not disappointed.

Can’t wait for Bush to “nail it”