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I don't know what's wrong with me, since a lot of people seem to like this guy, but his posts just piss me off.
by amackera 17y ago
I don't know what's wrong with me, since a lot of people seem to like this guy, but his posts just piss me off.
- allenbrunson 17y agohe is sometimes abrasive, which i'd prefer he wasn't. but he has his finger on the pulse of the apple ecosystem like no one else. and it seems to me that articles like this are occasionally warranted, because the attitude in the tech press about apple has always been 'wow, this company totally doesn't act like microsoft! clearly, they need to act more like microsoft' for decades, to the point where it's infuriating.
- dasil003 17y agoI like Gruber because he gets Apple without being a fanboy. Some people would disagree, but those tend to be Apple haters who irrationally believe that Apple's success consists solely of pulling the wool over people's eyes with clever marketing. Gruber on the other hand, repeatedly sets the record straight on Apple in a way that would be quite informative to analysts if they paid attention. I have to admit though it's fun to watch analysts' perennial struggle to understand what makes a user-experience driven company work. Even after Apple almost kicked the bucket following all that analyst advice in the 90s, there is always this contingent that somehow thinks Apple should be Dell + Microsoft.
- jbellis 17y ago> I like Gruber because he gets Apple without being a fanboy. Some people would disagree, but those tend to be Apple haters I have two macs and just ordered a third, but Gruber is a fanboy. (An intelligent one, but a fanboy all the same.)
- pohl 17y agoI need to check...is there still room for being a fan of something without being a fanboi, or have those two concepts completely merged?