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Gruber hardly ever gets this close to criticizing Apple. I guess there's a line which even the most ardent Apple defender isn't willing to cross. I'm still wai
by cageface 16y ago
Gruber hardly ever gets this close to criticizing Apple. I guess there's a line which even the most ardent Apple defender isn't willing to cross.
I'm still waiting to hear more from Apple's side on this but if it turns out that they really do feel they can be this capricious and selectively self-serving in their enforcement of the rules there's no way in hell I'd consider building a business on their platform, no matter how lucrative it might be in the short term.
- jsnell 16y agoThat's funny, I thought it was just the opposite. It's amazing how far out of his way Gruber was going to avoid any criticism beyond the harmless dig at the rules changing without the rules having been changed. He even went so far as to suggest this would actually improve the user experience! And Amazon did specifically get critiqued for strong-arm tactics in that post, so it's not like he was just in a cheerful mood and didn't want to say anything negative about anyone.
- ubernostrum 16y agoGruber hardly ever gets this close to criticizing Apple. This comment reveals a level of self-delusion that's perhaps unhealthy. Especially seeing as Gruber has a pretty long history of strongly criticizing Apple's policies for the App Store...
- ugh 16y agoIt’s baffling to me that some people really think that Gruber never criticizes Apple, not even from a position of ignorance (“I don’t read much Gruber writes anyway but it seems to me that he hardly ever gets this close to criticizing Apple.”) but from a position of authority (“Gruber hardly ever gets this close to criticizing Apple.”). I have seen harmless headlines than the one Gruber uses for this article called “linkbait” on HN.