indefensible: john gruber

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.

basically slocki otm

Agreed. Was def a way better demolition of the Isaacson book than Siracusa managed.

I want to put NextSTEP on my old Thinkpad now, except the guy who installed it for Jobs says it was a total nightmare http://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=2209

the siracusa thing was just a long, boring list of tiny errors and a couple of unsupported larger, vague arguments

i recently tried installing OPENSTEP in a VM and couldn't get past the driver selection stuff ):

lol this guy has a hard time enjoying himself, lil uptight http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/02/15/ios-86

As soon as Schiller told me the name, I silently cursed myself for not having predicted it. Apple is a company of patterns. iPhone 3G, followed by a same-form-factor-but-faster 3GS; iPhone 4 followed by a same-form-factor-but-faster 4S. Leopard followed by Snow Leopard; so, of course: Lion followed by Mountain Lion.

I wonder immediately about that “now”. I don’t press, because I find the question that immediately sprang to mind uncomfortable. And some things remain unchanged: Apple executives explain what they want to explain, and they explain nothing more.

this guy is v strange

I’ve been using Mountain Lion for a week, preinstalled on a MacBook Air loaned to me by Apple.

oh my god

THIS is your FAVORITE FEATURE??

My favorite Mountain Lion feature, though, is one that hardly even has a visible interface. Apple is calling it “Gatekeeper”. It’s a system whereby developers can sign up for free-of-charge Apple developer IDs which they can then use to cryptographically sign their applications. If an app is found to be malware, Apple can revoke that developer’s certificate, rendering the app (along with any others from the same developer) inert on any Mac where it’s been installed. In effect, it offers all the security benefits of the App Store, except for the process of approving apps by Apple. Users have three choices which type of apps can run on Mountain Lion:

* Only those from the App Store
* Only those from the App Store or which are signed by a developer ID
* Any app, whether signed or unsigned

The default for this setting is, I say, exactly right: the one in the middle, disallowing only unsigned apps. This default setting benefits users by increasing practical security, and also benefits developers, preserving the freedom to ship whatever software they want for the Mac, with no approval process.

lol

Sadly, the punning possibilities of 'mac-gruber' have only just now suggested themselves to me, when surely that meme wave was beaten into the ground by now.

THIS is your FAVORITE FEATURE??

loool

software signing is actually not a terrible idea; in fact many linux distributions have cryptographically signed packages using keys that are signed by the distributors. And groobs is on point with his hope that package-signing will make it onto iOS as the platform opens up.

All the work I do on my mac is in the terminal or a web browser anyway so new OS X features rarely mean much to me.

me too. the last time i upgraded OS X for some reason other than "it came with the new computer" was 10.4.

And groobs is on point with his hope that package-signing will make it onto iOS as the platform opens up.

I really, really hope that transpires

I knew the Dow was imprecise and rather arbitrary compared to something like the S&P 500, but the more I learn about the Dow the more nonsensical I realize it is.

find a new zing james

found one

https://twitter.com/#!/totallyslutsky/status/171666559666888705

:D

http://twitter.com/#!/jdalrymple/status/170699109177634816

http://twitter.com/#!/gruber/status/172054760323690497

o dammmn

a signpost in life

he linked to The Oatmeal today, pretty indefensible imo

ppl on the internet hate everything eh

If your interested in a deep, thoughtful take on the problems Mac developers are running into with sandboxing...

2008-2010: I remember when it was unique to see people using a Mac. I remember when people thought my having an iPhone was unique..

Don't even get the point of writing that other than as a beacon, a yardstick for the guy's impeccable taste.

/tech-thoughts/

My Thoughts About Purple Suspenders Over the Years

1990-Writing this post: Was I ever capable of dressing myself?

Best part about his site: the "in partnership with mediatemple" graphic. mediatemple hosts a number of tech/design sites for free, and those sites indicate that somewhere, usually in the footer. This guy is paying for their cheapest plan and still has a big old logo conspicuously displayed at the top of the page.

^ actual good zinging

I have to hand it to mediatemple, their sponsorship has paid off so well that the cargo cult thinks they're making the next hot site just by putting the logo on the side, even if they're still paying for that "privilege"

in partnership with angelfire

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzupz2luBf1qafhi5.jpg

loooooool xp

Incisive, informed content curation.

http://twitter.com/#!/daringfireball/status/180424385470021632

i like how he arbitrarily decides to refer to the new ipad as iPad (3)

ya that's awful

Why would he not call it "the 2012 iPad"

Why I ask you

(3)

srsly that shit has to stop. he doesn't call it the MacBook Air (3) or the iMac (14), does he? ffs. I bet he'd drive a Porsche 911, but he wouldn't call it a 911 (7), either.

Porsche 911 (Never Forget)