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405 points Bogdanp | 1 comments | 26 Aug 25 00:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.261s | source
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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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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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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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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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1. zarzavat ◴[26 Aug 25 10:14 UTC] No.45024540[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.