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I agree, it's been pretty amusing watching and reading the re-structuring and re-wording of arguments on the Apple circle-jerk of blogs this past year. It's si

I agree, it's been pretty amusing watching and reading the re-structuring and re-wording of arguments on the Apple circle-jerk of blogs this past year. It's similar to the current "browser wars." We're all over-privileged and spoiled to have 4 (soon to be 5) standards-compliant, fast, extend-able browsers to choose from on any platform we want. It's basically just nit-picking and personal preference at this point. It's the same way with smartphones now. We have dozens of handsets that come in a bunch of different flavors (Android, iOS, Windows Phone) that are for the most part very well designed. We're just as spoiled with them as we are with browsers right now. Isn't it enough that we can all choose our favorite equally-awesome version of a smartphone without having to trash the slightly different competitor and write dissertation after dissertation over-analyzing how the other will fail or is bad (when clearly they are succeeding and a large portion of the market enjoys the product)? Marco, Gruber, and co: you can stop. We get it, you like Apple. Good for you, not everyone else does. Isn't there something more productive you can be doing with your time?

bryanlarsen 16y ago
Yes, all the choices are awesome technically, which is why the debate is about consequences and morals, freedom and openness. The Apple defenders have to be so strident because Apple rarely has the high ground in these debates, except perhaps for its Flash position. The Google defenders have to be so strident because freedom and openness are important but invisible attributes.
martythemaniak 16y ago
>Marco, Gruber, and co: you can stop. We get it, you like Apple. Good for you, not everyone else does. Isn't there something more productive you can be doing with your time? No they don't, and I'm not being facetious. They are all Apple Tech Writers, not Tech Writers. They don't understand or care much about technology beyond Apple, so if they didn't glowing pro-Apple articles, they wouldn't have much to write about.
- the100rabh 16y ago
  Actually calling them Tech writers is blasphemous, they can only be termed as Apple writers. Nothing more nothing less

bryanlarsen 16y ago

Yes, all the choices are awesome technically, which is why the debate is about consequences and morals, freedom and openness. The Apple defenders have to be so strident because Apple rarely has the high ground in these debates, except perhaps for its Flash position. The Google defenders have to be so strident because freedom and openness are important but invisible attributes.

martythemaniak 16y ago

>Marco, Gruber, and co: you can stop. We get it, you like Apple. Good for you, not everyone else does. Isn't there something more productive you can be doing with your time? No they don't, and I'm not being facetious. They are all Apple Tech Writers, not Tech Writers. They don't understand or care much about technology beyond Apple, so if they didn't glowing pro-Apple articles, they wouldn't have much to write about.

the100rabh 16y ago
Actually calling them Tech writers is blasphemous, they can only be termed as Apple writers. Nothing more nothing less