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The descent of Gruber over the last few years from Apple enthusiast to Apple shill has been a pity to see. He went from stating his opinions to being objectively wrong or shamelessly unfair.

I wonder if it's simply because of him getting older, or if he ever got "the talk" from Apple. I guess you can't criticize a lot when you have VPs on your podcast.

I stopped reading (regularly) years ago for this reason. He’s in too deep and has too much of an economic incentive to be anything but a straight up mouthpiece for Apple. As a result his quality of insight has suffered.

But there’s still enough of an audience to sustain his business (and have it be wildly successful).

This fellow's writing is new to me so I found an old post [0] to compare. I don't know, it seems equally gushy to me.

[0] https://daringfireball.net/2012/09/iphone_5

People have been making the Gruber has gone downhill claim for years.

In the past handful of posts about Apple he's made he said he's disappointed Apple is discontinuing the Magsafe battery pack, disappointed that the free iCloud tier "remains a measly 5 GB", and that he thinks it's a shame that the iPhones mini have been discontinued.

In standard fashion, there's very little info on Gruber's site. It's simple Apple praising.

And but we’re supposed to believe that Apple deliberately made the iPhone’s charging and data port worse, for years, for a fistful or two of dollars? My god, the sheer arrogance it takes to believe that Apple takes for granted an iota of the iPhone’s success and enduring popularity.

Oh Gruber. It's fine to pick sides, I even like this style more than noncommittal "there are pro's and con's" pieces. But quotes like this, peppered into all his work, stray too far away from a review. Not just by an iota.

If you are on the fence between android or iphone, then yes, this review is useless.

But if someone is deep into the ecosystem of apple, which apparently is 15% of the world, this review valuable.

Where I may agree thou - as someone who listens to gruber and similar - is that they didn't see the pitfalls of computational photography and just praised the marketing at face value.

Gruber can have his own opinions and I’m happy it makes him happy. Something it reminds me of, though, is this issue I’ve had in the workplace before where some other engineer wants something and can make five really weak points for it and sell those points as if they are important because quantifying the value of many things can be near impossible.

I like their take of the ATP podcast - they love Apple stuff but are not afraid to criticize when necessary (the quality of MacOS releases) - Gruber at this point might as well join Apple as an evangelist.

Marco Armant/Walt Mossberg writes on MacOS and it's decline in quality.

"Perhaps not surprisingly, the storm of criticism and negative press created by Mossberg’s piece was so great that Apple executives Eddy Cue and Craig Federighi made an appearance on John Gruber’s The Talk Show podcast to address some concerns and defend the quality of iOS and OS X."

:).

> I’ve only ever bought prime lenses in the 28mm to 50mm range. I zoom with my feet.

Most people buy primes in the <100mm range, and then adjustable telephotos like 100-500mm.

IMHO primes at every focal length provide a different look, versus just walking closer or farther. And you buy telephotos to zoom in on sports and nature - where you can’t just walk closer to the subject.

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