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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.

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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.

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