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Why am I incapable of either discerning or caring about any of this? I can't help but be impressed by his incredible attention to detail and his understanding o
by scandox 10y ago
Why am I incapable of either discerning or caring about any of this? I can't help but be impressed by his incredible attention to detail and his understanding of the design choices and their ramifications ... but I still feel like I'm reading about the mating habits of some alien species. Interesting yes. But also bizarre and faintly ridiculous.
- scholia 10y agoDitto. I think we're a class of people known as "normal". EDIT: Downvoted by abnormals ;-)
- lallysingh 10y agoSome years ago Gruber became the community PR person for Apple. The phone isn't interesting in any good way; the only major changes are all things taken away.
- skywhopper 10y agoPeople have different tastes and obsessions. I enjoy Gruber's writing about Apple products, but his extreme obsession on other topics baffles me. YMMV. I think it's a good thing that there are lots of different types of people on the world. There's extreme value in that diversity.
- scandox 10y agoThe thing is I totally agree with you. Intellectually speaking I try to respect the diversity. But viscerally I react with complete bafflement.
- janvdberg 10y agoI sort of feel the same way. But then again people have different interests. And he happens to spend a lot of words on black vs. jet black, but still in the end concludes: "But what matters is what happens when you turn them on and use them."
- dionidium 10y agoSome people spend all of their free time doing needlepoint; others are experts in dog grooming. Some people, bafflingly, collect postage stamps.