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405 points Bogdanp | 10 comments | 26 Aug 25 00:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source | bottom
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wk_end ◴[26 Aug 25 00:45 UTC] No.45020948[source]▶
I don't follow him closely, but I'd always thought that John Gruber - while often a very good writer - got a little too much exposure to the Reality Distortion Field. So I'm a little surprised to see him come down so hard on this.

Was I wrong about Gruber or is this a proverbial canary in the coal mine?

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1. stmpjmpr ◴[26 Aug 25 00:57 UTC] No.45021029[source]▶
I follow him, and despite being an Apple commentator, he can be very critical of Apple. You might have missed this from earlier this year: https://daringfireball.net/2025/03/something_is_rotten_in_th...
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2. ◴[26 Aug 25 02:25 UTC] No.45021613[source]▶
3. coolandsmartrr ◴[26 Aug 25 03:26 UTC] No.45021942[source]▶
I feel that he became critical of Apple only post-Jobs.
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4. aculver ◴[26 Aug 25 03:55 UTC] No.45022098[source]▶
I don't remember how common it was, but there are definitely examples of him being critical before, e.g. https://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/05/11/facetime-standa...
5. LoganDark ◴[26 Aug 25 04:55 UTC] No.45022410[source]▶
Steve Jobs was a huge part of Apple. They're just not the same anymore.
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6. code_biologist ◴[26 Aug 25 06:57 UTC] No.45023158{3}[source]▶
I recently got a newer iPhone and moved to iOS 18 with the hardware change. I had to watch some youtube tutorials explaining navigation and swipe locations. Over and over I've had the thought "this never would have flown under Steve."
7. jurmous ◴[26 Aug 25 07:12 UTC] No.45023267[source]▶
This year the Apple leadership didn't visit his Talkshow anymore. Likely as a response to this article.

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/05/29/no-apple-executives-tal...

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8. pjmlp ◴[26 Aug 25 10:04 UTC] No.45024472{3}[source]▶
Being a 70's child, thus having lived through most Apple consumer history, I would say it slowly feels like the Apple of old, when Steve Jobs was busy with NeXT and Pixar, the main difference is that now they have enough money to burn and make dumb decisions.
9. zarzavat ◴[26 Aug 25 10:14 UTC] No.45024540{3}[source]▶
Cook makes shareholders happy but he's not much of a leader. Jobs was a leader.

The butterfly keyboard catastrophe whereby Apple sold broken laptops for 4 years just because they didn't want to waste money retooling, would never have happened under Jobs. Jobs had the courage to say fuck the shareholders when necessary, Cook does not and it's a recurring theme of his leadership.

10. raydev ◴[27 Aug 25 00:57 UTC] No.45034228[source]▶
No, he shared on Dithering that there was a back-and-forth email exchange about the execs appearing on the Talk Show as usual, but they couldn't come to an agreement on details of the event.