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Gruber has always been an Apple fanboy, but in the past few months it's taken a turn into ragebait territory, and i'm this close to stopping reading it
by internetter 3y ago
Gruber has always been an Apple fanboy, but in the past few months it's taken a turn into ragebait territory, and i'm this close to stopping reading it
- ksec 3y agoHow many things that most people ( within Apple Fans circle ) commonly believes that are plain wrong was started by him? Apple invented USB-C and turned it over to USB-IF The original AirPod was sold at cost. These are the two I remember well, others including Modem, CPU, Unified Memory, and now Payment. Although arguably Payment doesn't count because he did admit he is wrong. Basically Gruber and Daniel Eran Dilger from AppleInsider have similar traits, they have made their own conclusion and they derived their explanation backwards.
- lnxg33k1 3y agoApple has killed the theft industry and the app store is safe
- ragazzina 3y agoI guess the latest message he is putting out is "Apple can't compete in Europe without anti-competitive practices, so they should get out of there".
- newsform 3y agoGruber also lies about having invented markdown, which was actually invented by Aaron Swartz in 2002 (http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/atx/intro.html http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/atx/intro.html). Gruber just wrote a little perl script called Markdown.pl in 2004, but after Swartz's suicide in 2013, he pretended that he had come up with the whole thing, and has been using it to market himself ever since. Truly repugnant behavior.
- ryukoposting 3y agoAh, now that I'm looking closer at the blog, it looks like a one-man MacRumors to me. Out of 21 blog posts this calendar year, all of them either appear to be Apple related, or they appear to be promoting his podcast, which is also about Apple.