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It's refreshing to see that Daniel Eran Dilger's talent for writing thousands of words of speculation based on, say, two sentences in release notes is still goi
by chipotle_coyote 7y ago
It's refreshing to see that Daniel Eran Dilger's talent for writing thousands of words of speculation based on, say, two sentences in release notes is still going strong.
And, yes, that's a little mean of me, but I'm not kidding. In July 2010 he wrote three pages with illustrations about how Xcode 4 "could portend new HTML5 development tools" that delivered "solutions for parallel development tasks"; in April of that year, he wrote what might as well have been a short novel about how the iPad would "kill" DVDs, Microsoft Office, DVRs, and "idle moments." He at least used to fill his long, long articles with links that look like citations, but are actually just links to... earlier speculative articles he's written. Actual references tend to be very, very thin. He's also still remarkably committed to the notion that everything Apple does is mad genius four-dimensional chess, to the point where other bloggers in the Apple space including John Gruber (and, back when I could be described as "a blogger in the Apple space," me, I suppose) called him out for it.
The notion that Metal is a SECRET GRAND STRATEGY to replace CUDA is fascinating, it's just... not supported by any material evidence, despite the length of the article suggesting otherwise. In other words, it's pretty classic Dan Dilger.
- scarface74 7y agoHe was writing his entries at “Roughly Drafted” for years and he was a well known but not well respected blogger I think back as early as the 200x’s.
- Rannath 7y agoThink he knows Mega Man?
- Havoc 7y ago>talent for writing thousands of words of speculation based on, say, two sentences in release notes is still going strong. In fairness I'd love to have a piece of that
- auggierose 7y agoIt makes sense though. I have been thinking the same for a while now. What they need for that strategy to work though is to provide cloud computing offers for Metal, and I don't see that anywhere on a meaningful scale. A cheap Metal cloud computing offering from Apple would truly be something. Would probably make them better at writing cloud software, too ...
- ksec 7y agoI am sure this is not the first time I heard someone describe him as "writing thousands of words of speculation based on, say, two sentences in release notes" And DED is Apple's biggest Fanboy that barely understands tech or business and continue to fantasise Apple as a religion and Apple Park as Elysium. And yet there is a group of people continue to follow its post. Even AI is still in my RSS feeds I cant remember when was the last time I actually clicked on any of its content. I am even thinking if I should have flag this. The worst part, is Horace Dediu, a well respected analyst that covers Apple, invite him to speak in one of his Apple investment conference.
- ben7799 7y agoHe even gets huge amounts of the past history wrong.
- pkulak 7y agoConstantly describing Apple users as "affluent" bugs the hell outta me for some reason.