I thought what they are planning is a buyback?
― mh, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 13:20 (twelve years ago) link
you obviously don't read daring fireball
― caek, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 13:20 (twelve years ago) link
Apple can’t control its stock price; that’s in the hands of investors. But it can control how much cash it keeps in reserve. If investors sour (or the market crashes) and the stock price dips, Apple could take itself private. I’m very intrigued about what they’re going to announce tomorrow.
I mean, I get what you're saying -- buy back stock with the company's money, then give that stock to executives -- but I think what their strategy is tends to be more in the way of compensating executives or giving them stock incentives if they stick around, tying their monetary interest in the company to long-term goals rather than striving for bonuses at the end of the year and then bailing for another job.
― mh, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 13:21 (twelve years ago) link
oh jesus he really said that, I take all back, he's a moron
― mh, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 13:22 (twelve years ago) link
ha
― caek, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 13:22 (twelve years ago) link
There are many good reasons for Apple making this move, but the likelihood of it ever going private is less than zero.
― dandydonweiner, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 13:31 (twelve years ago) link
I don't get how dude can post stuff like that! I mean, it's one thing to betray a complete lack of financial knowledge, but if you talk that through out loud it doesn't even make any sense.
― mh, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 13:33 (twelve years ago) link
he should go back to writing about what he knows best: mac os x 10.2-10.3 and perl
― caek, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 13:37 (twelve years ago) link
I kind of have doubts about dude's perl chops tbh
Have we addressed the controversy about the meltdown that happened when people confronted him about the fact he was refusing to allow changes to markdown, including bugfixes people submitted a year prior, and wouldn't give up control?
― mh, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 13:41 (twelve years ago) link
that was hilar. he wanted to keep it elegant, and keep focus by saying "no" to everything.
― stet, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 13:44 (twelve years ago) link
He was good at demonstrating his savvy understanding of the programming and web communities.
― mh, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 13:45 (twelve years ago) link
like the time he launched the effort to build a new Mail client? It was called Letters or something and was like the king of vaporware
― stet, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 13:49 (twelve years ago) link
omg I don't remember that, but I bet it is amazing
― mh, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 13:49 (twelve years ago) link
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/01/rage-against-the-mail-machine-the-genesis-of-letters.ars
http://www.quora.com/John-Gruber-1/What-is-the-status-of-Letters-the-email-client-for-Mac
― stet, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 13:51 (twelve years ago) link
The e-mail client will be called Letters, and project contributors voted Daring Fireball's John Gruber as the man to be responsible for getting version 1.0 out the door.
― mh, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 13:55 (twelve years ago) link
that stuff about him being the director
― caek, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 13:55 (twelve years ago) link
oh man
The whole $500 thing is kind of funny in view of the Mac App Store, too. What would that be today -- a $80 app like Aperture?
Meanwhile, Sparrow for iPhone launched and the reviews included "TOO COSTLY FOR A PROGRAM THAT DOESN'T HAVE PUSH" and it's friggin $3
― mh, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 13:56 (twelve years ago) link
Sparrow would be great but no push is deal breaker. And sorry, working with Boxcar just isn't the same. Urban Airship would be a better integration.
Gruber has a lot of good posts, but he gets prickly very easily.
― dandydonweiner, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 14:24 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, that wasn't the real issue there... people weren't saying "oh, I need this one feature, I will avoid it due to that"
It was "NOT WORTH $3" when it has a shitload of features!
― mh, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 14:27 (twelve years ago) link
I think what people are saying is that that $3 for an app that is missing an essential feature is too costly.
― dandydonweiner, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 14:29 (twelve years ago) link
And FWIW, if Sparrow was made by Google for Android, Gruber would be shelling that corpse with glee for not having push.
(I'm too lazy to go find his post on the release of the standalone Gmail app)
― dandydonweiner, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
(whose push feature was fooked)
eh, fair enough.
The entertaining bit is that if you set up a gmail account on an iPhone, it doesn't use gmail's exchange/push server by default so the app currently works with gmail the same way Apple's mail client does, by default. /Gruber
― mh, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 14:39 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I always wonder if that is Apple's middle finger at Google somehow.
― dandydonweiner, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 14:49 (twelve years ago) link
eh, I think it's more the fact that Google still doesn't show it in their setup directions that clearly! You only get the directions on the mobile site, and there under "Google Sync," not under email setup. I think it's officially supported and non-beta, but maybe that's not what they tell Apple?
― mh, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 14:58 (twelve years ago) link
Imagine how frustrating this situation must be for monologists who do value the truth, who are performing true journalism.
err is journalism + stage performance a thing?
― grimes - (the elder scrolls iv:) oblivion (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 15:20 (twelve years ago) link
fox news, only they're about as truthy as mike daisey
― mh, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
imagine how frustrating it must be for fox news
― grimes - (the elder scrolls iv:) oblivion (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
right, it's frustrating for fox news like it is mike daisy.
Same package of entertainment.
― dandydonweiner, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 16:13 (twelve years ago) link
*points to twitter*
― markers, Sunday, 1 April 2012 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
SUNDAY CRAZINESS
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/03/30/readability
― markers, Sunday, 1 April 2012 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/UiU5y.png
― diamonddave85, Sunday, 1 April 2012 21:52 (twelve years ago) link
cf. this link to an article about human beings being abused
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/03/29/fla-foxconn
vs. this lengthy article about journalism
http://daringfireball.net/2012/03/baby_from_the_bath_water
i guess it's to be expected from a guy with a colophon and a house style, and maybe he honestly doesn't have much to add, but the dude is sleeping on the major apple story of a generations. i mean this post has more commentary than his post about the abc story:
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/03/29/bezos
― caek, Sunday, 1 April 2012 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
https://twitter.com/gruber/statuses/186571502550917120
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Sunday, 1 April 2012 22:08 (twelve years ago) link
fwiw I only use Readability when a page is so choked with ads and carousels and other dumb shit that it's actually impossible to read
― TURPS-DEFCON1.jpg (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 1 April 2012 22:22 (twelve years ago) link
i use readability a lot when a page is laid out in such a way that its hard to read, p sweet setup, dont use the whole read later aspect tho, i just keep a lot of tabs open
― lag∞n, Sunday, 1 April 2012 22:25 (twelve years ago) link
btw i will now admit that i find it kinda entertaining how gruber gets legitimately outraged and calls people names
― lag∞n, Sunday, 1 April 2012 22:27 (twelve years ago) link
oh and in Reeder when the source refuses to provide the full article via rss xxp
― TURPS-DEFCON1.jpg (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 1 April 2012 22:28 (twelve years ago) link
btw gruber must acknowledge that when apple built readability support into safari they became scumbags by extension
― TURPS-DEFCON1.jpg (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 1 April 2012 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
Readability is awesome and has almost supplanted my use of Instapaper. The linking thing, eh, probably a misstep. The whole "they are taking money given in publishers' names" is completely bullshit afaik because they take money, and offer publishers the opportunity to have some of that money, but they don't say "this money is definitely going to the publishers."
Lots of self-righteous anger going on, imo.
― mh, Sunday, 1 April 2012 22:40 (twelve years ago) link
how do u ppl use readability?
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Sunday, 1 April 2012 22:41 (twelve years ago) link
On longer-form articles I run across either while browsing twitter or just the web or ilx or whatever I'll add them to Readability, then sit at home after work and read the articles while I'm eating lunch or having a beer after work on my iPhone or iPad.
― mh, Sunday, 1 April 2012 22:43 (twelve years ago) link
i push the back quote button and it magically reformats a website
― lag∞n, Sunday, 1 April 2012 22:44 (twelve years ago) link
all you posters sleeping on my post about the major "indefensible: john gruber" story of a generations
― caek, Sunday, 1 April 2012 22:46 (twelve years ago) link
it was a good post
― lag∞n, Sunday, 1 April 2012 22:47 (twelve years ago) link
"Badass."
― caek, Sunday, 1 April 2012 22:48 (twelve years ago) link