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Apple locking Google out is the same thing as Android competing with iOS. Yup. What's new? One side is competing with the other. The other side is locking them

Apple locking Google out is the same thing as Android competing with iOS. Yup. What's new? One side is competing with the other. The other side is locking them out of the platform on an application (Google Voice) and an advertising level. What if Google said they weren't going to allow Apple apps on Android or allow iAds on Android (not that I think either would ever happen in a million years). I simply can't fathom the double think that Gruber uses to excuse Apple's actions while pointing fingers at Google.

nooneelse 16y ago
> I simply can't fathom the double think that Gruber uses to excuse Apple's actions while pointing fingers at Google. I wonder what it must be like living with the knowledge that your ongoing fame is so dependent on friendly leaks and peaks from a patron known for ire-based reversals of largesse. His career keeps him prone to something like Stockholm syndrome. At this point, how many months or years away from this dependency would he need, before we could start trusting that he is giving us independent opinions that are truly from him; not things that are, as likely as not, what he needs to believe.
- rortian 16y ago
  Well said. I think the biggest break he's ever had was Steve Job's endorsing one of Gruber's posts as Apple reasoning.
- commandar 16y ago
  > I wonder what it must be like living with the knowledge that your ongoing fame is so dependent on friendly leaks and peaks from a patron known for ire-based reversals of largesse. His career keeps him prone to something like Stockholm syndrome. Just as an example: I think a lot of people forget that a couple of years ago, Apple was very friendly with Gizmodo. That started to sour when Gizmodo ran some pieces speculating on Jobs' health, and has only deteriorated since - Gizmodo was cut out of prelaunch iPad access entirely and we all know the iPhone 4 saga by now. Apple is very comfortable with being the ones to taketh away.

nooneelse 16y ago

> I simply can't fathom the double think that Gruber uses to excuse Apple's actions while pointing fingers at Google. I wonder what it must be like living with the knowledge that your ongoing fame is so dependent on friendly leaks and peaks from a patron known for ire-based reversals of largesse. His career keeps him prone to something like Stockholm syndrome. At this point, how many months or years away from this dependency would he need, before we could start trusting that he is giving us independent opinions that are truly from him; not things that are, as likely as not, what he needs to believe.

rortian 16y ago
Well said. I think the biggest break he's ever had was Steve Job's endorsing one of Gruber's posts as Apple reasoning.
commandar 16y ago
> I wonder what it must be like living with the knowledge that your ongoing fame is so dependent on friendly leaks and peaks from a patron known for ire-based reversals of largesse. His career keeps him prone to something like Stockholm syndrome. Just as an example: I think a lot of people forget that a couple of years ago, Apple was very friendly with Gizmodo. That started to sour when Gizmodo ran some pieces speculating on Jobs' health, and has only deteriorated since - Gizmodo was cut out of prelaunch iPad access entirely and we all know the iPhone 4 saga by now. Apple is very comfortable with being the ones to taketh away.