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> But what are his credentials? When he weighs the merits of a programming language, an API, a platform, or anything technical, I want him to speak from experie
by kemayo 2y ago
> But what are his credentials? When he weighs the merits of a programming language, an API, a platform, or anything technical, I want him to speak from experience.
Sure, but he doesn't actually do that very much, does he? Like, that is absolutely not the focus of the blog. He talks a lot about the business of Apple, Apple's products and their direction, and how Apple interacts with various communities.
I don't think someone needs to have an engineering degree to have a valid opinion about the things the EU is telling Apple to do.
- rezmason 2y agoApple's business relies tremendously on its developer relations. If Gruber doesn't regularly navigate that wedge of the ecosystem, then I don't think he can speak with authority on its soundness. I mean I wouldn't!
- kemayo 2y agoI'd say that knowing and interacting with a lot of active developers probably counts. As far as I can tell, he has those connections.
- kemayo 2y agoActually, fun counterpoint. This is the current top of the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43498984 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43498984 It's about Apple. It's an opinion piece, where someone's saying that Apple should do a retrenchment OS release where they just fix bugs. It appears to be written by someone who is some combination of a pastor and a professional opinion-haver ("editor in chief"). I don't think there's any metric by which this person's article should be sitting unflagged at the top of the front page, but Gruber's recent something-rotten-in-Cupertino article should get promptly flagged and hidden away.