Dude, you must be living under a rock, then. He created freaking Markdown, everyone and their cat (including Apple!!) has been adopting and supporting it since.
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John Gruber Reacts to Apple Declining His Interview After His Criticism
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Gruber has fallen off tremendously. Contrary to many others, I thought his WWDC episode of the Talk Show with Joanna “put MacOS on the iPad” Stern and Nilay “the future is web apps” Patel was almost unlistenable.
"but I feel them deciding not to do my show this year is a total win for me and was a huge loss for them"
OMG that is the hardest cope I've ever seen 😂
OMG that is the hardest cope I've ever seen 😂
Another example how Apple operates the same way China operates. Total control over everything unless forced to do so otherwise. Tight control on the narrative. Ban on naysayers.
Um, ok. Guess we’ll see if you’re a regular Mark Gurman.
Ghost him Apple. Gruber is way past his expiry date, has been a disaster past 7-8 years. Too bitter about everything, hadn’t listened to him nor went to daringfireball in a long time. Atleast Jim Darymple knew when to quit.
Google what is Markdown?
Nah. I know where he’s coming from with his criticism, and fully subscribe to his stance; back during the SJ days, and right up until the pandemic, Apple always demoed their new products and features live, mostly shipped them in a reasonable timeframe, and didn’t advertise them in mass media unless they were essentially ready. He was spot on in saying that the Apple of today has grown complacent in all three fronts! They’re prioritizing style over substance, and effectively “demoing” their features in pre-recorded presentations, so we’ve moved to a “trust me, bro” framework, and yet they’ve also managed to break that trust five years in. If Apple took Gruber’s latest posts and even Joanna Stern’s interview seriously, WWDC’26’s keynote would be a live event, flashy transitions and perfect speeches be damned.
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You’re making him sound like a sexy private eye in this fanfic that doesn’t resemble reality. He’s a blogger.
I'd have agreed with you there but after watching Craig and Joz's interview with Joanna, I couldn't disagree with this more. They were doubling down on the existence of working internal prototypes and completely gaslighting about "launch dates", as if they didn't do that exact thing last year. I think calling the situation rotten is quite apt given the cluster**** Apple put themselves in overpromising and massively under-delivering when the rest of the industry is at breakneck pace.
I agree with this too and I don't think Gruber/Apple would be in this situation if Apple hadn't ****ed it up from the get go. Most of us have lived with the massive disappointment that Siri has been from the start and I don't think we would've cared if they didn't go and overpromise things that they couldn't deliver with their state of art. I would also want them to take their time and get things better, consider privacy aspects, bring more on-device. It's fine for now to lean on to others if needed while Apple can focus on what they do best. It can get better bit by bit. The new ML frameworks seem promising, I even noticed the new on-device Siri voice models for speaking out content were quite better on the Dev Beta. I know they have the talent in Cupertino to get it right and if not, they do have buttload of cash to start splurging.
Craig and Joz spoke with Joanna Stern, who is neither very bright nor very fair toward Apple.
Notably, she didn't imply that Tim Cook had been sucking the president's genitalia. I wonder if that might have something to do with that.
That’s a fair assessment on the second part.
I loved Joanna’s interview. She’s always been a great journalist. I still think Gruber went a little too far but otherwise agree with most things.
I miss the live events. I want them to still have staged events for iPhone/iPad/Mac because I think the production is really good and it’s quite impressive that they’re shooting all this on iPhones these days.
But for WWDC at least, I miss the on stage events with the audience reactions and live demos.
Why are you asking me a random question about a feature that isn’t even available yet?
Could not agree more! Consumers appreciate transparency.
Thanks! It looked familiar but I certainly didn't remember it from this last keynote.
Neither do readers on this website, apparently. Gotta support the cult to the end or gtfo, apparently. No room for criticism or improvement.
So your point is Apple good, anyone critiquing them is a hack? Sounds like a current political cult response.
It’s funny talking about political cultist. Gruber is the biggest political cultist, heck. He lost it with his bitterness in past 7-8 years. Honestly Apple is the least of the concerns for Gruber.
Whilst that may be the case, there are very few businesses in the world, that want their 'secrets' exposed prematurely. How does he find those 'rumors', and what does he do to compensate those that give them to him? Let's not forget that!