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It's classic Gruber. He wants you to definitely come away with the impression that this is a total fraud but he also wants complete deniability that he called i
by Marazan 8y ago
It's classic Gruber. He wants you to definitely come away with the impression that this is a total fraud but he also wants complete deniability that he called it a fraud.
- eksemplar 8y agoI don’t know if this is classic Gruber. I’ve read a lot of his stuff and it’s always been interesting. Now I haven’t followed him closely either, so maybe I’ve only seen the good stuff, but this is the first time I’ve come away from it thinking he was an idiot.
- Marazan 8y agoGruber's stock in trade is ambiguous 1 line response to an extract from an article he's linked to which he can then criticise people for mis interpreting. Once you've noticed this pattern it's much harder to take his (often very good) long form pieces seriously.
- Marazan 8y agoAlso his total and complete inability to admit he was 100% wrong about large screened phones being successful is painful. Gruber/Apple is never wrong - but sometimes reality realigns.
- neya 8y agoIf you've been following the Markdown debacle closely[1], this is classic Gruber. [1] https://blog.codinghorror.com/standard-markdown-is-now-common-markdown/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/standard-markdown-is-now-commo...