I only discovered John Gruber's blog Daring Fireball about two years ago, but lately my enthusiasm for his posts has waned. I think that Hank Williams put it perfectly:
...for me, John Gruber has officially jumped the shark. And while his often insightful analysis will still be in my regular rotation, just as I still occasionally watch George Will on the latest incarnation of This Week, it will never be the same. I used to trust John Gruber. Now I will just read him.
I don't think that Gruber has been less logical in his arguments, but I get the feeling that he's posting more selectively these days. Sure, he's still critical of Apple at times, but I feel that he reports on anything negative about Android or positive about Apple. No insult to an enemy of Apple seems to escape his attention.
And if Gruber really wants examples... does he really need to mention this?
Comments (1)
June 4, 2010
9:22PM | #
Totally agree. Your example is bad though.
A better example is find a company competing with Apple and Gruber will worm out a way to hate them; with examples as to why and where Apple is better. Whether he's joking or not--and it doesn't seem like he is--it does look like he suddenly dislikes Google; Apple's new competition.
And he seems to like Bing apparently now too, just after rumors Apple might add them to the iPhone. Funny that.