indefensible: john gruber

I remember being young and thinking that it'd be cool to be in a position where people would send me unreleased products to review. Then I got old and realized that beta testing other people's shit is horrible.

I love Tweetbot and iOs for the simplicity and beautifulness of the triple-tap gesture.

I wonder if Gruber is beta testing the version with quadruple-taps.

lol

I have two twitter apps on iPhone and I've been swapping between them with no clear fave. tweetbot 2.0 is kinda nice, though

i caved and got tweetbot when it went on sale and i like it so much more than any other one i've used, it's just like... enjoyable

i just wish the interface was more elegant

twittelator neue is pretty but is still a lil buggy and feature incomplete

not empathetic enough

"twittelator neue"

lol

can't believe you guys aren't using twilvetica!

nm it's not out yet

speaking of fonts: http://www.marco.org/2012/01/13/helvetica-kettle

shows disturbing signs of self awareness

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9627011/photos/facepalm.gif

How did I miss Gruber posting this on his blog?

Oh, he didn't.

Hear that noise? That’s Violet Blue backpedalling… ★

oh jesus

The overreacting/woman-protection racket going on from Gruber's corner, masquerading as being in-touch with feminist concerns or being somehow more sympathetic, is gross. Someone found the name of a woman at the company and he ran with it, which is... what, all women are the same and you found the name of the one woman who worked for them, no way are there two of them?

There are, after all, too many millions of different models of woman. The development team should take a leaf out of Apple's book and slim down the product line offering to perhaps only two or three designs, each to fulfill the varying functions as needed by the user. This approach could soon see a rapid change in the market, with the adoption rate of women (in my suggested wifi, 8gb and 16gb variations) bringing women to the forefront of the post-PC world.

on the contrary, that woman is a beacon, a yardstick for all other women

http://www.70decibels.com/thepenaddict/

defensible in concept, jus guys bein nerdy baout pens

Almost before you could stop throwing up in your mouth at the idea of Michael Arrington accusing a Times journalist of being less than noble, Arrington’s partner at CrunchFund, MG Siegler, weighed in with his own attack in which he basically said Bilton is a nice guy who was either too lazy or too busy to do a good job. From this Siegler leaps off into a long diatribe about how most tech reporting is utter bullshit written by idiots who are all in a hurry to chase page views.

So: Path comes under fire, and straight away, the paid hit men – Arrington and his sidekick, Matty the Angry Chihuahua — spring into action to smear Bilton and try to discredit him.

I’ll give them this much. They’re good at what they do. Siegler especially is a nasty little ankle-biter who has developed some level of expertise in launching ad hominem attacks. He did one on me a while back. Then he did one on Josh Topolsky at The Verge.

Now it’s Nick Bilton’s turn.

Great response here from the man who's not afraid to type the word 'bullshit':

Looks like someone woke up from his nap of the last three years and is hungry. Sadly, I don’t have much food for him. I’ll keep this as brief as possible — and I promise this will be the last thing I ever say about Dan Lyons, as he’s clearly done.

Feel free not to read. Or read Michael Arrington’s post on the matter. He takes a higher road than I’m about to. I’m just sick of Lyons’ bullshit.

i have lost all ability to discern sarcasm in this thread. That wasn't a great response to me, just point-avoiding ad homs from a corrupt would-be hack.

Definitely sarcasm.

Big fan of http://mgsieglermeme.tumblr.com, though.

yeah anyone who defends siegler or arrington on this should be banned from ilx and thrown into the ocean

But she’s not a very good writer in the pure sense of the word. Both she and Lyons rely on cutesy gimmicks.

http://i.imgur.com/nXhCV.png

m.g. siegler offering a beacon, a yardstick of good tech writing

#1 pet peeve: people who read 'on writing well' or some other chestnut and the only thing they take away is that all. of their sentences. must. be. very. short. that's. what good. writing. is.

Some WSJ claim chowder.

http://i.imgur.com/zEOaD.png

Times when it's OK to alter your site template: Christmas, Valentine's Day, the death of a multinational CEO.

must have ignored her in favor of the ipad 2 for the last time

how long did it take him to pick what shade of red to use?

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/02/14/fla

"This is the biggest challenge facing Apple today."

★

has he actually written anything longer than glib link commentary? guess he's been busy with long form claim chowder : (

yeah anyone who defends siegler or arrington on this anything should be banned from ilx and thrown into the ocean

Times when it's OK to alter your site template: Christmas, Valentine's Day, the death of a multinational CEO.

― James Mitchell, Tuesday, February 14, 2012 12:26 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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I, Too, Love Amy Jane

fuckin guy lovin his fuckin wife...

i wonder if she checks the site everyday or maybe he had to send her a link

if she's anything like dh she's an rss/instapaper kinda lady. inbox zero. no time to type in urls

has he actually written anything longer than glib link commentary? guess he's been busy with long form claim chowder : (

Saving it all up to complain about NeXT not being given its due, it looks like!

His wife's twitter account is many times more entertaining than his own.

You can get fired up that way, and see my criticism here as condemning Isaacson’s book as total shit, zero stars. That would be a mistake. Steve Jobs is not literature, but it is a good book, but alas with several holes and egregious errors.

um, that piece is probably the best thing he's written in a year or two.

Except his whole premise of "Steve Jobs thought software is more important than hardware" is completely a total shit, zero stars Jobsian-style binary view.

and "Apple is an experience company" made me boak, versus something like "Apple is a product company" which is the truth

like, made me think of Apple iBalloon Rides With Your Fiancee

Apple uses experiences to sell products, as any Mad Men watcher could tell you.

that's a diff thing from being an experience company, tho

"apple is an experience company" is his turgid writing style, yes.

but i am a good-faith zinger, and that was a good piece.