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While it does read as a fanboy article, Gruber has criticized Apple at least a few times in the past. Here's one example, in particular. https://daringfireball

• ZeroGravitas 9y ago
  When I first read Gruber he spent quite a bit of his time attacking Apple for abandoning lots of the good stuff from OS9 in favor of the promise offered by the (relatively) clean but at-the-time untested underpinnings of OSX.
• lern_too_spel 9y ago
  Until he says Apple screwed up so bad that he recommends another company's product, he can only be called a shill.
  • jgruber 9y ago
    Which products do you think I should recommend a competing product over Apple's? On phones, tablets, and computers, I personally much prefer Apple's OSes, and I usually prefer their hardware as well. But even when I don't prefer Apple's hardware, the OS wins out. I don't recommend Apple's wi-fi base stations: https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=1370753 https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=1370753
    • lern_too_spel 9y ago
      And why haven't you written anything about which WiFi base station you recommend? Because it isn't an Apple device? Everybody has a WiFi base station, while relatively few people have a smart watch or a programmable TV set top box, so noteworthiness is definitely not the reason. On phones, tablets, and computers; your opinions are laughably one-sided, pooh-poohing all the things that Apple gets wrong, while making up issues with competitor products out of whole cloth. Your writing on Apple's long-delayed deployment of third party multitasking and its eventual copying of Android's Activity model, having worse battery life than the competition this the entire time, was especially cringeworthy.
      • armadsen 9y ago
        He has talked pretty frequently about how he has and likes Eero’s products on his podcast.
        • calibration263 9y ago
          They also happen to be a sponsor of the podcast, so I could understand why he hasn't written a glowing review on DF.
        • lern_too_spel 9y ago
          He likes Eero like the radio DJ likes Comcast and Sleep Train. There is no attempt to justify his recommendation, certainly not the massive effort and contortions he puts into recommending every Apple product. https://daringfireball.net/linked/2016/12/10/eero-wifi-system https://daringfireball.net/linked/2016/12/10/eero-wifi-syste... https://daringfireball.net/feeds/sponsors/2017/12/eero https://daringfireball.net/feeds/sponsors/2017/12/eero
    • Mindwipe 9y ago
      Photos seems like a good example of a product that is in such a mess that you should be discussing what a general user should use instead at this point. You even confess in the recent post about Marzipan about what a debacle drag and drop not working for a year in Photos is. But you've never written a piece about "why is Photos in such a mess"? Because it is. Basics of the platform still don't work, more than a year later (export original files and watch it hang, with no progress indicator! Drag and drop between applications is a joke!). Why not turn some light on that, why not discuss alternatives than general users should be looking at instead?
  • charlesgres 9y ago
    The way I read that is that you're a shill as soon as you say something (even slightly) positive about Apple.. I guess for an Android fan it's not a tough call to be cleared of the 'shill' label, because there's plenty of fucking up going on in that world that even the diehard fans have to admit to it.. If only Apple would do us Apple fans the favor of royally fucking up from time to time so that we can stop being accused of being shills.. But alas they never do.. What a pity..