New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

what a long-winded bullshit excuse for stealing a phone.

'i sat around and waited for the guy but he didn't come back'

yes and afterwards you just walked off with it..didnt think to hand it in behind the bar?

sounds pretty lol coverup to me. details are suspiciously fleshed out. but who cares

gizmodo paid $5k for it
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9175819/Gizmodo_paid_5K_for_next_gen_iPhone

http://celebraterickysargulesh.tumblr.com/photo/1280/535785118/1/tumblr_l16h2whfka1qa9bmv

h/t to max

gizmodo was noticeably sluggish yesterday, and, i think, they turned comments off to cut down on processing.

i call that gif "how to make a million dollars on the internet, by nick denton"

http://cache-01.gawkerassets.com/assets/gizmodo.com/img/themes/nextgeneration-690x210.jpg

slow golf clap to apple's black-ops PR department

This doesn't smell like Apple's PR, black ops or otherwise. I like how everyone is shitting themselves over a prototype that features a likely not-final case, and there are no pictures of the thing actually running. Apple's not going to freak because this is a huge leak from them, but for any other company this is about 1/1000th of what would be shown to the press throughout a product's development.

BTW, the new inertial trackpad thing on MacBook Pros is nice. I can get to the bottom of ILX threads so quickly!

http://www.fakesteve.net/2010/04/gruber-wants-to-make-a-citizens-arrest-at-gawker-and-gizmodo.html

also android running on iphone is kinda sick

Lose iPhone prototype, get free trip to Germany to keep drinking beer

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/7/2010/04/500x_0422_lufthansa.jpg

also android running on iphone is kinda sick
u doin this?

Gruber has a great post up abt the whole Gizmodo/iPhone 4 debacle

gruber's tone has gotten really irritating over the years.

man, i love Daring Fireball

i like daring fireball and i'm a bit of an apple stan but gruber's broken his brain over this gizmodo thing.

been reading since aught four, and i'm sure he didn't used to bang on about this old school journalism shit like he invented it back then. want him to go back to getting neurotic about the finder.

suspect he's playing to the gallery of his apple contacts to ensure continued tips. that's as much old school journalism as gizmodo's shady dealings.

not me (no iphone), but I saw it linked from sanctimoniousfireball.com

wtf @ the lufthansa thing. that doesn't even... make any sense. got to ride that publicity wave I guess

on matters of taste, he has reliably terrible conservative yuppie ones. wouldn't bother me so much if he wasn't seen as a technical design guru with a typography background. he's a perl coder (taste!) with a copy of strunk and white and a stanley kubrick box set.

he has reliably terrible conservative yuppie ones

what do you mean?

Did you guys ever see where people were calling him out on his complete inability to maintain his Markdown plugin? The main version had "unpublished" fixes that he stuck elsewhere, there's no community management of it despite the syntax being in a lot of places, etc.

conservative tech design yuppie with his background is consistent with perl, strunk & white, and kubrick imo

this is narcissism of small differences that i don't want to encourage in myself, but the post on the front page about the 100$ bill redesign is a good example. also: yankees fan.

conservative tech design yuppie with his background is consistent with perl, strunk & white, and kubrick imo

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yeah, totally. it's how he's perceived by up and coming apple stans that bothers me. they should be more like me.

sanctimoniousfireball.com hope he reads his referrers.

I like him generally, but it's a lot of "hah, told you so" comments refuting stupid analysts that dare to short Apple, calling people out for some perceived slights, and a few other glitches that make me think he's nothing more than an unofficial mouthpiece for part of Apple's business.

ffs, Apple employees reference his comments on Flash stuff

i had no idea there was an actual hierarchy of apple stans!

i have no idea what you guys are talking about except at some point perl was mentioned and perl is totally awesome :D

Yeah, but he has only that expertise because he migrated from beardy web dude to Appley tech pundit and hasn't touched actual programming for years.

perl: people with no taste
ruby: assholes
python: fine
gruber on objc, cocoa, next, osx internals: lolz

wtf perl is the coolest language ever. i don't know what any of those others are tho. lol hardware engineer

if you're a hardware engineer, then you probably don't consider any of these "actual programming"

he drops in little references to his personal style guide, like "Daring Fireball changed from 'Web site' to 'website' last October". Or when he stopped writing "Internet". Two things about that: (i) he does not need a style guide, he writes a blog (ii) all his style choices are those weirdly pretentious AP/NYT ones, like he's writing tech documentation at IBM or something.

kubrick ugh

isn't 'osx internals' just 'unix' ?! *runs*

on matters of taste, he has reliably terrible conservative yuppie ones. wouldn't bother me so much if he wasn't seen as a technical design guru with a typography background. he's a perl coder (taste!) with a copy of strunk and white and a stanley kubrick box set.

The effect on the fanboy army is worse. You'd think Helvetica was the only font.

i think DF is generally really, really great -- i don't really read many other tech blogs regularly, but i appreciate the writing & insight on his

feel for you, son

is there an equivalent PC fanboy community out there?

READ YOUR BLOGS

loooool

re: Helvetica, I thought Kubrick was a Futura man? Wes Anderson sure is.

gruber doesn't use helvetica, tbf, but he doesn't criticize its misuse by apple

how do you misuse helvetica? bad kerning or something?

you use it on an iphone

always love it when i discover new levels of aesthetic fastidiousness. what am i missing here - why is helvetica bad on the iphone?