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"We'll never see this fixed until Gruber gets the error." Awesome.
by RexRollman 15y ago
"We'll never see this fixed until Gruber gets the error."
Awesome.
- 13r4v0 15y agowho is gruber.. Forgive me for being naive..
- molecule 15y agortfa. http://daringfireball.net/colophon/ http://daringfireball.net/colophon/
- 13r4v0 15y agoHw the f am i supposed to know that John Gruber is an apple fan boy by reading his About page.. it
- Timothee 15y agoTo be more verbose than molecule: Gruber is an Apple-focused blogger who gained a lot of influence in the Apple world over time. A lot of people interested in the Apple "world" follow his blog. So, if he were to get this problem and blog about it, Apple would make sure it'd be fixed fast…
- ugh 15y agoI very much doubt that assertion. Gruber complains quite a bit, I can’t recognize any pattern of Apple fixing specifically the problems he has faster.
- Groxx 15y agoSupporting evidence: the lack of Markdown support in the Mail app
- BlazingFrog 15y agoOr on Apple discussion forums.
- Timothee 15y agoFair enough. I don't have any evidence either way to be honest, I was mostly explaining why he was mentioned in the post. Though, in any case, one thing you can be sure of is that when he blogs about something, it gets significant attention in the tech sphere. You wouldn't be able to link a fix directly to him afterwards, but I think it's fair to say that his blow-horn is loud enough to have some influence.
- Pewpewarrows 15y agoIt's result #2 in a Google search for "Gruber".
- monochromatic 15y agoDude, the word "Gruber" is a hyperlink in the article. Just click on it.
- mcantor 15y agoWhere on Gruber's website is his relevance to the subject made clear? EDIT: No, seriously. If someone has no idea who Gruber is and they click through to his site, tell me where on the screen they would see information that answers the implicit question "Who is Gruber and why would him finding out about this problem aid its resolution".
- monochromatic 15y agoYou're right. It's not like the title of his page is "Gruber: Mac Fanboy #1" I retract my snark, or at least a little bit of it.
- mcantor 15y agoDuly upvoted! I appreciate your willingness to keep an open mind.
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- mkramlich 15y agoDaring Fireball blog author Google "Gruber Apple" is your friend.
- jschuur 15y agoAre there examples of things that were fixed by Apple specifically because Gruber blogged about it?
- chc 15y agoBack when there was all the controversy about really stupid and occasionally offensive App Store rejections, Gruber took the rare approach of actually criticizing Apple on his blog. So Apple VP Phil Schiller personally responded to Gruber's latest post and Apple began making some sweeping changes to their review processes.
- technoslut 15y agoWell Gruber did give his reply to this story: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/08/12/itunes-account-hacked http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/08/12/itunes-account-h...
- sprovoost 15y ago> In Hanselman’s case, though, he admits he was using PayPal, > not a credit card. Perhaps it’s therefore safer to use a > credit card instead of PayPal for iTunes Store payments? I don't see how that makes a difference if your iTunes account is compromised. Or perhaps it's because your creditcard company is more likely than Paypal to alert you to suspicious activity?
- DannoHung 15y agoHe's just saying that there's an extra authentication step. Which wouldn't do him jack-all if he had a keylogger on his computer.