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251 points mpweiher | 9 comments | 08 Dec 25 11:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source | bottom
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gyomu ◴[08 Dec 25 12:36 UTC] No.46191532[source]▶
I really have to wonder who Gruber’s sources are.

His statement “prior to today never heard much about [Steve Lemay]” leads me to think he doesn’t have intimate access to anyone deeply familiar with design decisions, because anyone who’s spent a little bit of time behind closed doors in that space absolutely knows who Lemay is.

But then he quotes sources who are supposedly “in a position to know the choices”, which would imply they are quite embedded in the design org…

Maybe it’s all voluntary misdirection on his behalf.

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1. troupo ◴[08 Dec 25 15:31 UTC] No.46193394[source]▶
Me feeling is that his sources are mostly programmers and perhaps some managers.

It's also possible he has very few sources left: he's an outsider to the company, and it's hard to maintain sources since people leave, move to different positions etc.

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2. philistine ◴[08 Dec 25 16:09 UTC] No.46193985[source]▶
His Something rotten in the state of Cupertino piece earlier this year broke his relationship with the upper echelons of Apple, and to be frank he's no longer inevitable as an Apple commenter. He cannot understand the European Union at all, so he devolves into saying they're idiots. Really? The EU, the whole thing, idiots? Really?
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3. jbm ◴[08 Dec 25 16:38 UTC] No.46194394[source]▶
https://daringfireball.net/2025/03/something_is_rotten_in_th...

This article? If it caused consternation it boggles the mind. These are all completely normal reactions to Apple's AI missteps.

If detailed but milquetoast criticisms are grounds for excommunication, maybe the company really does have serious management issues.

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4. philistine ◴[08 Dec 25 16:50 UTC] No.46194547{3}[source]▶
Well excommunication is not appropriate as a term. Apple has cut off access to the most important cardinals for interviews, not told John he's out of the Catholic Church.
5. troupo ◴[08 Dec 25 17:19 UTC] No.46194927{3}[source]▶
Oh, there also was the mildly sensational "I wonder too, what taste Cheetos-dusted 78-year-old testicles leave in one’s mouth. Whatever the flavor, I hope it lingers."

https://daringfireball.net/2024/11/i_wonder

6. Daishiman ◴[08 Dec 25 17:29 UTC] No.46195060{3}[source]▶
> If detailed but milquetoast criticisms are grounds for excommunication, maybe the company really does have serious management issues.

This has always been the case at Apple. Tons of ex-employees have commented about challenges in criticism.

7. klabetron ◴[09 Dec 25 10:41 UTC] No.46203443[source]▶
I don’t think we should conclude that a tech columnist who regularly shits on EU tech policy really intends to attack the EU writ large. If he sounds like he’s generalising to the “whole thing,” I’m pretty sure he understands most readers know he’s not talking about the entire EU experiment. Just the backward tech regulation.
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8. philistine ◴[09 Dec 25 18:26 UTC] No.46208549{3}[source]▶
Oh no, John criticizes at large. He complains that the EU itself is too obtuse, that the way they enact laws is obtuse, that the nomination process for officials is obtuse.
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9. troupo ◴[09 Dec 25 19:48 UTC] No.46209678{4}[source]▶
No. He criticizes quite specific things that show how completely clueless he is, as it is immediately pointed out both by people in the comments and his blogger/influencer/programmer friends.

He really is unique in how consistently wrong and clueless he keeps on being.