indefensible: john gruber

hard to read bro

really on a roll with the glib, breathtakingly thick, arrogant posts at the moment! go john!

Most revealing line of his 4S review:

I asked for and received a Sprint model from Apple for testing, so that I could compare it against AT&T and Verizon.

I'd assume (hope) that he returned it when done?

I love how Baig, Pogue, and Mossberg get review units before everyone else, and race to publish their reviews. Where by “love” I of course mean “hate”.

I’m not sure why this has erupted into such a little blog publishing world scandal. It’s certainly wrong for someone to accept one of these machines and then write about it without disclosing that it was a gift (or a review unit, or whatever you want to call it), but I don’t get why some people are so up in arms about Microsoft giving them out in the first place.

tbf i think 'Where by “love” I of course mean “hate”.' is a horribly formed joke about jealousy, rather than him thinking it is wrong in principle to review stuff you haven't bought.

don't get me wrong though, he's still a terrible person.

Grubes has stated multiple times that he always returns his review units.

http://twitter.com/AmyJane/status/128319587161882624

haha

https://twitter.com/#!/AmyJane/status/124281963875024896

oh man

indefensible or not, the more he descends into (unintentional) self-parody, the more entertaining I find him

October 20th:

The fields aren’t new, but their usefulness for Siri is.

October 24th:

Yeah, seems like a nice idea to use these fields to aid Siri, but it’s not what they’re there for.

damning, just damning

this post i feel like is top level gruber self regard http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/10/26/human-rationality

whoa

i dont even

wait, who actually believes that humans are rational thinking machines...?

1. economists
2. other people
3. jon gruber (himself only, not the other humans)

Daniel Kahneman is p interesting, was just looking to see if he was on twitter before i found that gruber post

Think this is a good thread for these guys:

http://www.marco.org/2011/10/27/double-dipping-ads-in-ipad-magazines
http://brooksreview.net/2011/10/grannell-magazines/

Enjoy your $100 per issue magazine subscriptions, everyone.

sheesh

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/11/09/get-to-work

lol

yeah grubbie's on a roll with this flash news

Nothing further to say on the matter.

to be fair, they don't really use quicktime for non-video content anymore!

http://vimeo.com/31926572

YAY!!!

. . .

YAY!!!

he doesn't know what the word "disinterested" means

btw i love john siracusa

otm

people who do apple podcasts really don't know how to speak, eh

which podcasts are you referring to yo

http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/42

loved that episode and he totally knows how to speak tbh!!!

Congratulations to the Tories.

lol

this is the first interesting point i've seen him make in about 6 months http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/11/14/microsoft-admosphere

It's like Roger Ebert posting about how he's just noticed that 20th Century Fox in is competion with Warner Bros.

i wasn't being sarcastic, i think it's actually a good observation.

May sound funny coming from a typography-obsessive whose website has

lolll armchair typographer gruber is still my favorite

Truly funny spoof from College Humor.

★

It has been approved, it is objectively funny

hahaha

the best part of his keynote video was seeing his Field Notes notebook in the back pocket of his dad jeans

http://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/siri-for-android-clones.png?w=657

Nevermind the Siri rip-off, what makes this so very Android is all that junk in the status bar in the screenshots.

To be fair I think he's referring to all the icons right at the top.

um yeah

— but to me, Roboto is just the new Arial.

never change~~