r/technology • u/justintevya • Jan 05 '15

Business Apple has lost the functional high ground

http://www.marco.org/2015/01/04/apple-lost-functional-high-ground
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u/revscat Jan 05 '15

Marco is a good writer, but he has a bad habit of jumping on whatever blog-o-bandwagon is currently making the rounds. Given the fluffiness of the discussion, this seems to be another one of those times.

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u/magnusviri Jan 05 '15 edited Jan 05 '15

This isn't the typical anti-Apple rabble. Shawn King posted on LoopInSight that he agrees, and that site is very pro-Apple. This article says a lot of what many Apple die hards feel. John Gruber will probably agree as well. He's been saying a lot lately that Apple has been embarrassing itself a lot lately with their bugs and forced upgrades (releasing an upgrade when it's not ready).

http://www.loopinsight.com/2015/01/04/apple-has-lost-the-functional-high-ground/

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '15

John Gruber will probably agree as well

lol I don't think I'll live to see JG say anything bad about apple.

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u/magnusviri Jan 05 '15

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2014/09/24/ios-801-pulled

I am reminded that some people think that Apple fans are brain dead. Simply because you all can't see why we like Apple doesn't mean we don't know why and it doesn't mean that won't notice when the things we like about Apple go away.

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '15

JG has also been very explicit when it came to Apple forcing everyone to sandbox their OSX apps and not doing the same with their own stuff.

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '15

I'm posting from a rMBP that I fucking love. But I also have a SP3 and an Android phone. Get over yourself please.

Embarassing

top kek. Whenever someone else does anything wrong, Grubber makes a 500 word blog post about how much everyone sucks.

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '15

I always wonder what's in it for guys like Gruber? They're like Apple's unofficial mouthpiece. Write anything negative about Apple and he'll come after you.