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Actually - I went there expecting an insightful article on why the iPhone5 is good. Instead I got a mind-warping justification of why 4" is now great, glass vs

by blrgeek 14y ago

Actually - I went there expecting an insightful article on why the iPhone5 is good. Instead I got a mind-warping justification of why 4" is now great, glass vs aluminum, no mention of the Lightning plug, no mention of iOS6. If you look at Gruber's article, you'll find that few if any of what he's talking about have major impacts on your daily usage of the phone, and what's great about the iPhone5 have been done before (screen, non-glass, display, LTE, battery life, CPU perf) - but he spins it as if Apple's doing that for the first time in the universe. BTW, I am an Apple fan - first gen iPad/iPod, 3 Apple laptops, and a dozen people buying Apple prods because of me. This was NOT a pro-Android, anti-Apple comment - it was an anti-Gruber spin-fluff piece comment.

philwelch 14y ago
> mind-warping justification of why 4" is now great Did we read the same article? Gruber clearly seemed to think it was more unwieldy to use and spent a lot of time weighing tradeoffs on that issue. His conclusion seemed to be little more than his resignation to get used to the iPhone 5's 4" screen. I think you're expecting Gruber to be a loyal apologist, so you're a little thrown for a loop when he seems a little unsure about the merits of Apple's decisions. He does spend the 750 words raving about the industrial design of the phone. The lede is that the iPhone 5 is "nice", not that it's a technological breakthrough (other than the manufacturing processes at least). It's clear that that's where Apple focused their innovation for this cycle. If you're only looking for technical specs and you're blind to this sort of thing, don't be surprised when other people interpret you as an Apple hater. To be perfectly honest, the fact that you now come out claiming to be an Apple fan indicates more than anything that you were trolling the whole time.

by blrgeek 14y ago

philwelch 14y ago

> mind-warping justification of why 4" is now great Did we read the same article? Gruber clearly seemed to think it was more unwieldy to use and spent a lot of time weighing tradeoffs on that issue. His conclusion seemed to be little more than his resignation to get used to the iPhone 5's 4" screen. I think you're expecting Gruber to be a loyal apologist, so you're a little thrown for a loop when he seems a little unsure about the merits of Apple's decisions. He does spend the 750 words raving about the industrial design of the phone. The lede is that the iPhone 5 is "nice", not that it's a technological breakthrough (other than the manufacturing processes at least). It's clear that that's where Apple focused their innovation for this cycle. If you're only looking for technical specs and you're blind to this sort of thing, don't be surprised when other people interpret you as an Apple hater. To be perfectly honest, the fact that you now come out claiming to be an Apple fan indicates more than anything that you were trolling the whole time.