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A lot of the time, when I agree with Gruber it’s grudgingly. With this it’s wholeheartedly.

• refulgentis 2y ago
  If it makes you feel any better, I'm still cranky about it, because it's a really low-effort echo of Jobs' pickup truck analogy for Macs, coupled to no novel insight, groping its way to saying nothing substantive about scales that were tipped years ago. Absolutely nothing changed recently in Apple's macOS security posture / UI, the annoyances have been there for years. All this accomplishes is signalling its okay to talk about them as they are. Idk why I'm reflexively cranky towards him, I used to worship the guy. Somewhere around 2016/2017 it started reading like nails on chalkboard. I think it was the attempts to prove the Google restaurant reservation service thing was fake, including the demo, escalating it into encouraging people to call the restaurant to ask, then when the restaurant said it was true, please stop calling, suggesting the restaurant was in on it. Also, when I grew up on tech in the Apple fandom community pre-iPhone/early iPhone, there was a ton of principled worries about the App Store that was treated respectfully, at least, until the leaders willing to say that moved onto other tech. At some point those same concerns became reflexively dismissed as trolling / wanting to hurt users / EU pandering