indefensible: john gruber

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

hahahahaha

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— 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”

I remember when I got a hard time for suggesting it would be a good thing for an iPhone model to start at $1,500. A starting price of $1,980 is eye catching, for sure, but as I’ve been arguing for years, we accept the fact that pro laptops costs $2,000 or more, so why not $2,000 phones, when for so many people, the phone is by far their most-used and most important computing device? (Not to mention their primary camera.)

I can think of a couple reasons.

phones shd be $3000

Which do you look at more often, your phone or your college diploma? Therefore an iphone should cost more than a private college education and if you are not already saving for your child's smartphone you are making a mistake

* Bloomberg, of course, is the publication that published “The Big Hack” in October — a sensational story alleging that data centers of Apple, Amazon, and dozens of other companies were compromised by China’s intelligence services. The story presented no confirmable evidence at all, was vehemently denied by all companies involved, has not been confirmed by a single other publication (despite much effort to do so), and has been largely discredited by one of Bloomberg’s own sources. By all appearances “The Big Hack” was complete bullshit. Yet Bloomberg has issued no correction or retraction, and seemingly hopes we’ll all just forget about it. I say we do not just forget about it. Bloomberg’s institutional credibility is severely damaged, and everything they publish should be treated with skepticism until they retract the story or provide evidence that it was true.

He's right, but what a weird ongoing vendetta...

Those are problems I wouldn’t give to a monkey on a rock.

what the ever loving fuck

Congratulations to the Toronto “Raptors”.

— John Gruber (@gruber) June 14, 2019

I checked in on mr congrats to the tories and it's all Hong Kong stuff this week

congrats to carrie lam

It’s pretty telling that the most anti-journalism people are people who think they’re journalists but have no idea how it works or how it’s made. Also we had 14 sources, and after the piece broke, nearly twice as many more. pic.twitter.com/V8W4mBlr8b

— Kevin Nguyen (@knguyen) December 10, 2019

previously:

Honest question: why? I’m not trying to be obstinate — I’m genuinely asking what you think is objectionable about this story.

— John Gruber (@gruber) December 7, 2019

ooh good I didn't realize we were talking about this new debacle over here

love to concoct a weird conspiracy theory that ends up painting one of my sponsors in a better light

lol thanks for the context, here and away

Unfortunately nobody gives enough of a shit about Grubes to cancel him :((((

he really built the perfect business

[Long update clarifying my theory on Away’s ouster of Steph Korey: https://t.co/OUYQqyIBZp]

— Daring Fireball (@daringfireball) December 10, 2019

clears things right up

Who-Gives-A-Shit-Gate

his tea leaf reading and mythologizing from the outside... classic groobs

and now: https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/12/11/21003305/away-luggage-ceo-steph-korey-stuart-haselden-culture

Away’s new CEO was going to be second in command — until a toxic workplace story blew up

I can't wait for gruber's new hand waving explanation of how he was wrong, but still right

its hilarious this is all over one of those reinventing the x companies that advertises heavily on facebook fuckin allbirds of luggage ass best hoodie in the world

“I know this group is hungry for career development opportunities, and in an effort to support you in developing your skills, I am going to help you learn the career skill of accountability,” Korey wrote in one series of middle-of-the-night Slack messages to her customer service staff (emphasis hers). “To hold you accountable...no more [paid time off] or [work from home] requests will be considered from the 6 of you...I hope everyone in this group appreciates the thoughtfulness I’ve put into creating this career development opportunity and that you’re all excited to operate consistently with our core values.”

lol this all must be so satisfying for whoever leaked those chats

last month i saw an ad for Away on the train touting their lifetime warranty and scoffed to my friend, "yeah a lifetime warranty from a company that isn't going to exist in 1 year sounds great." and here were are

No spoilers:

I loved “The Rise of Skywalker” like no Star Wars movie since the original trilogy.

That palpable sense of camaraderie was there, and it just hit so many great notes. JJ Abrams nailed it.

— John Gruber (@gruber) December 20, 2019

that palpatinable sense of cameraderie

Congratulations to the Sith

somehow that's the most ominous review I've read so far

groobs likes it, something has gotta be fucked up

He only likes bland slurries

definitely a peer to the early 2000s bloggers who were into "good design" and "cinema" but really only got off on posting stills from Kubrick movies and some Dieter Rams object of design on their desk

then James Bond got rebooted and Gruber partners with someone to create an artisanal, authentic note-taking iPhone app called "vesper" because it's really cool

Someone being Brent Simmons, who confuses me by being good not bad for making NetNewsWire and Frontier but also bad not good for working with Winer and i suspect making enormous mountains out of molehills when coding.

that space was kind of a loose-knit blogosphere with an affinity for apple projects and Simmons collaborating on that app was kind of the tail end of it, imo

I guess Simmons works at Omni now, which makes complete sense, and is coordinating a new NetNewsWire open source release which... idk, I wish it was useful to do RSS aggregation in 2019

lmao vesper

Why would you need sync?

I can’t remember, didn’t they do sync but priced out the best options pre-icloud apis and had a sweetheart deal with Microsoft, followed by a bunch of favorable MS content on the blog?

someone let the thread know when gruber's posted a new take on the luggage lady ceo situation

no impulse to read it myself, just want to ponder the possibility of a man touching a hot stove then repeatedly doing back to touch the burner

goddamnit claim fucking chowder god in heaven just kill me

In broad strokes, you can probably file me as a Jonathan Chait Democrat. I agree with Chait far more often than not, and when I disagree with him, I almost always think, “Well, he does make some good points.”

oh boy

perfect

Being an Apple blogger in 2020 seems like a hard gig.