this blog is a diff color rite now
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 22:47 (twelve years ago) link
did he go to dark gray in mourning
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 22:48 (twelve years ago) link
hard to read bro
really on a roll with the glib, breathtakingly thick, arrogant posts at the moment! go john!
― caek, Thursday, 13 October 2011 14:59 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 13 October 2011 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
I'd assume (hope) that he returned it when done?
― avant-garde heterosexuals (mh), Thursday, 13 October 2011 15:20 (twelve years ago) link
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”.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 13 October 2011 15:20 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 13 October 2011 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― caek, Thursday, 13 October 2011 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
Grubes has stated multiple times that he always returns his review units.
― Your Favorite Album in the Cutout Bin, Thursday, 13 October 2011 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
http://twitter.com/AmyJane/status/128319587161882624
― James Mitchell, Monday, 24 October 2011 08:33 (twelve years ago) link
haha
― ice cr?m, Monday, 24 October 2011 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
https://twitter.com/#!/AmyJane/status/124281963875024896
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Monday, 24 October 2011 15:35 (twelve years ago) link
oh man
― Millsner, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 03:44 (twelve years ago) link
indefensible or not, the more he descends into (unintentional) self-parody, the more entertaining I find him
― Millsner, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 03:45 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 04:47 (twelve years ago) link
damning, just damning
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 04:51 (twelve years ago) link
this post i feel like is top level gruber self regard http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/10/26/human-rationality
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
whoa
i dont even
― caek, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 18:30 (twelve years ago) link
wait, who actually believes that humans are rational thinking machines...?
― dayo, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 18:34 (twelve years ago) link
1. economists2. other people3. jon gruber (himself only, not the other humans)
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 18:36 (twelve years ago) link
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-magazineshttp://brooksreview.net/2011/10/grannell-magazines/
Enjoy your $100 per issue magazine subscriptions, everyone.
― James Mitchell, Friday, 28 October 2011 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
sheesh
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Friday, 28 October 2011 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/11/09/get-to-work
lol
― markers, Thursday, 10 November 2011 15:12 (twelve years ago) link
yeah grubbie's on a roll with this flash news
― sk8 bush (diamonddave85), Thursday, 10 November 2011 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
Nothing further to say on the matter.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 10 November 2011 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
to be fair, they don't really use quicktime for non-video content anymore!
― mh, Thursday, 10 November 2011 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
http://vimeo.com/31926572
YAY!!!
― markers, Sunday, 13 November 2011 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
. . .
he doesn't know what the word "disinterested" means
― caek, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
btw i love john siracusa
― markers, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
otm
― caek, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
people who do apple podcasts really don't know how to speak, eh
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
which podcasts are you referring to yo
― markers, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 00:24 (twelve years ago) link
http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/42
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 13:48 (twelve years ago) link
loved that episode and he totally knows how to speak tbh!!!
― markers, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 14:21 (twelve years ago) link
Congratulations to the Tories.
― sk8 bush (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 14:25 (twelve years ago) link
― markers, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 14:26 (twelve years ago) link
this is the first interesting point i've seen him make in about 6 months http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/11/14/microsoft-admosphere
― caek, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 14:42 (twelve years ago) link
It's like Roger Ebert posting about how he's just noticed that 20th Century Fox in is competion with Warner Bros.
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 14:51 (twelve years ago) link
i wasn't being sarcastic, i think it's actually a good observation.
― caek, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 15:12 (twelve years ago) link
May sound funny coming from a typography-obsessive whose website has
lolll armchair typographer gruber is still my favorite
― sk8 bush (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
Truly funny spoof from College Humor.
★
― caek, Friday, 18 November 2011 22:02 (twelve years ago) link
It has been approved, it is objectively funny
― ice cr?m, Friday, 18 November 2011 22:04 (twelve years ago) link
hahaha
― sk8 bush (diamonddave85), Friday, 18 November 2011 22:15 (twelve years ago) link
the best part of his keynote video was seeing his Field Notes notebook in the back pocket of his dad jeans
― sk8 bush (diamonddave85), Friday, 18 November 2011 22:17 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 05:38 (twelve years ago) link
To be fair I think he's referring to all the icons right at the top.
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 05:42 (twelve years ago) link