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So rather than addressing the point, you attack him on something completely different. Presumably because there are actually no examples where he's been wrong

by melange 13y ago

So rather than addressing the point, you attack him on something completely different. Presumably because there are actually no examples where he's been wrong about TouchID.

yapcguy 13y ago
No, I couldn't be bothered because the man writes guff. http://daringfireball.net/2013/09/the_iphone_5s_and_5c http://daringfireball.net/2013/09/the_iphone_5s_and_5c > "You know how iOS touch latency and scrolling performance have always been far ahead of its competition? The way you could just tell that internally, Apple had uncompromising standards for how responsive these things needed to be? That’s what Touch ID is like — it’s to all previous fingerprint scanners I’ve seen what the original iPhone was to previous touchscreen computers." Make that fawning guff. Convenient that he forgets the uncompromising standards of Apple Maps. > "Touch ID’s extraordinary performance and accuracy fit right into that story." No benchmarks or comparisons to justify this hype compared to other fingerprint scanners. How do we know it's not the same as a cheap $1 RF scanner from China? > " a complete experience hosted entirely on the device. Your fingerprint data is not just “not stored in iCloud yet”, it is not stored in iCloud by design, and according to my sources, never will be." Rubbish. He knows nothing about Apple's roadmap. He always cites his inside "sources" yet he has NEVER broken any story where he had the lead on a scoop. Not on any products or corporate announcements. I don't care what an armchair blogger thinks about TouchID. I do however care what the Chaos Computer Club thinks because they actually know what they are talking about.
- melange 13y ago
  You haven't actually made any points at all. You've just called him names and added some dismissive words after a few quotes from him. You don't have to convince anyone that you dislike Gruber. That much is obvious.
- gurkendoktor 13y ago
  > Convenient that he forgets the uncompromising standards of Apple Maps. In the next paragraph, he writes that Apple sucks at online services, and that TouchID is great precisely because it's a completely offline feature. You haven't even read the article. I wish HN would blacklist any mention of Gruber's name.

by melange 13y ago

So rather than addressing the point, you attack him on something completely different. Presumably because there are actually no examples where he's been wrong about TouchID.

yapcguy 13y ago

No, I couldn't be bothered because the man writes guff. http://daringfireball.net/2013/09/the_iphone_5s_and_5c http://daringfireball.net/2013/09/the_iphone_5s_and_5c > "You know how iOS touch latency and scrolling performance have always been far ahead of its competition? The way you could just tell that internally, Apple had uncompromising standards for how responsive these things needed to be? That’s what Touch ID is like — it’s to all previous fingerprint scanners I’ve seen what the original iPhone was to previous touchscreen computers." Make that fawning guff. Convenient that he forgets the uncompromising standards of Apple Maps. > "Touch ID’s extraordinary performance and accuracy fit right into that story." No benchmarks or comparisons to justify this hype compared to other fingerprint scanners. How do we know it's not the same as a cheap $1 RF scanner from China? > " a complete experience hosted entirely on the device. Your fingerprint data is not just “not stored in iCloud yet”, it is not stored in iCloud by design, and according to my sources, never will be." Rubbish. He knows nothing about Apple's roadmap. He always cites his inside "sources" yet he has NEVER broken any story where he had the lead on a scoop. Not on any products or corporate announcements. I don't care what an armchair blogger thinks about TouchID. I do however care what the Chaos Computer Club thinks because they actually know what they are talking about.

melange 13y ago
You haven't actually made any points at all. You've just called him names and added some dismissive words after a few quotes from him. You don't have to convince anyone that you dislike Gruber. That much is obvious.
gurkendoktor 13y ago
> Convenient that he forgets the uncompromising standards of Apple Maps. In the next paragraph, he writes that Apple sucks at online services, and that TouchID is great precisely because it's a completely offline feature. You haven't even read the article. I wish HN would blacklist any mention of Gruber's name.