Where’s Gruber?

[surferfb]

From today's Dithering:

I am taking advantage of the fact that I missed the original review period and now here we are at the end of November and I still haven't [published] but I am, I am going to write a review of these phones. It's actually coming along well, in my head at least. 😂

He also said he's going to buy Pro, not the Air. But that if the Air's screen size was the same as the regular Pro phone, he'd buy the Air, in the unlikely case that anyone was waiting on Gruber's decision before buying their own.

 

[StudioMacs]

From today's Dithering:


He also said he's going to buy Pro, not the Air. But that if the Air's screen size was the same as the regular Pro phone, he'd buy the Air, in the unlikely case that anyone was waiting on Gruber's decision before buying their own.

Since I’m happy with my 15 Pro, I’m skipping this generation. However, I appreciate Gruber’s take on Apple hardware and software, so I’m looking forward to reading his reviews just to gain some perspective.

 

[Snørrbjørg]

Where is he now?

 

[StudioMacs]

Where is he now?

Working on his iPhone review?

 

[fabian9]

No new post on daringfireball.com in more than a week seems quite odd.

Hope John is alright!

 

[Simmias]

...and he's back. With three negative posts in a row, trashing Apple over AI stuff and Tahoe design peccadillos. Just retire.

 

[MacGizmo]

...and he's back. With three negative posts in a row, trashing Apple over AI stuff and Tahoe design peccadillos. Just retire.

By that logic, virtually everyone here at MacRumors and basically the entire Internet needs to retire.

 

[Bodhitree]

By that logic, virtually everyone here at MacRumors and basically the entire Internet needs to retire.

Makes you wonder why AI isn’t hyper-critical and reactionary.

 

[Simmias]

By that logic, virtually everyone here at MacRumors and basically the entire Internet needs to retire.

No argument there! 😂

 

[M4th]

Jason Snell does an annual look back on Apple's "performance":

This is the eleventh year that I’ve presented this survey to my hand-selected group. They were prompted with 14 different Apple-related subjects, and asked to rate them on a scale from 1 (worst) to 5 (best) and optionally provide text commentary per category.

Apple in 2025: The Six Colors report card

Gruber is one of the respondents, and of course, no surprises in his assessments.

 

[Simmias]

Jason Snell does an annual look back on Apple's "performance":


Apple in 2025: The Six Colors report card

Gruber is one of the respondents, and of course, no surprises in his assessments.

What a bunch of whining irrelevant old losers. We get it, guys, you love the Mac of your teens and twenties, and now in your forties and fifties, are bitter that Apple has moved beyond your precious decades-old human interface guidelines, of which you've established yourselves as the champions, guardians, and gatekeepers. You're addicted to your iPhones, like all other GenX and Boomers, but turn your nose up at every other new Apple product category of the last twenty years. "iPad, Apple Watch, Vision Pro...hmph. They're ok for SOME people I guess, but I'll stick to my precious Mac, the expert elitist power user that I am. And please don't dare try to change the Mac, because I will cry endlessly about it on my blog and podcast and in my Mastodon echo chamber, even though I've lost almost all the influence I once had when Apple was a much smaller company and community."

 

[StudioMacs]

What a bunch of whining irrelevant old losers. We get it, guys, you love the Mac of your teens and twenties, and now in your forties and fifties, are bitter that Apple has moved beyond your precious decades-old human interface guidelines, of which you've established yourselves as the champions, guardians, and gatekeepers. You're addicted to your iPhones, like all other GenX and Boomers, but turn your nose up at every other new Apple product category of the last twenty years. "iPad, Apple Watch, Vision Pro...hmph. They're ok for SOME people I guess, but I'll stick to my precious Mac, the expert elitist power user that I am. And please don't dare try to change the Mac, because I will cry endlessly about it on my blog and podcast and in my Mastodon echo chamber, even though I've lost almost all the influence I once had when Apple was a much smaller company and community."

There are a lot of small details that have been missed on macOS 26.

Those details might not matter to you personally, but it does say something about Apple’s focus when the attention to detail the company was known for is missing from it’s desktop OS.

 

[M4th]

There are a lot of small details that have been missed on macOS 26.

Those details might not matter to you personally, but it does say something about Apple’s focus when the attention to detail the company was known for is missing from it’s desktop OS.

Athough I haven't updated yet, this may be overstating the issues:

 

[Simmias]

There are a lot of small details that have been missed on macOS 26.

Those details might not matter to you personally, but it does say something about Apple’s focus when the attention to detail the company was known for is missing from it’s desktop OS.

Apple just redesigned every operating system on their platform, including MacOS, iOS, and iPadOS. It’s expected that the first iteration will have rough edges. The rough edges of iOS 7, their last major redesign, were much worse. People, especially the crusty bloggers quoted in the article, are blowing these details completely out of proportion as a way to channel their general anger and resentment of Apple over other issues (e.g., App Store policies and how they impact their indie developer buddies). I’ve been using Tahoe since day one with zero issues, and it’s obvious that the next iteration of Mac OS will feature refinements that address almost all these niggling complaints.

 

[wanha]

Apple just redesigned every operating system on their platform, including MacOS, iOS, and iPadOS. It’s expected that the first iteration will have rough edges. The rough edges of iOS 7, their last major redesign, were much worse. People, especially the crusty bloggers quoted in the article, are blowing these details completely out of proportion as a way to channel their general anger and resentment of Apple over other issues (e.g., App Store policies and how they impact their indie developer buddies). I’ve been using Tahoe since day one with zero issues, and it’s obvious that the next iteration of Mac OS will feature refinements that address almost all these niggling complaints.

they're not talking about functional issues, but the fact that Apple has seemingly completely abandoned the human interface guidelines they themselves created for no rational reason

Windows is functional, too.

It was the UX that always set macOS apart.

 

[Corefile]

Isn't Gruber the chap who fell out of the building. Windows weren't working back then.