Posts tagged as:

John Gruber

The Windows Store Revenue Split

December 7, 2011

Daring Fireball on the Windows Store Revenue Split: Another big difference from Apple. I wonder though, with the various antitrust agreements Microsoft has made around the world, whether they could even consider an Apple-style “if you use our store, all transactions must go through us” policy. John’s on to something. Although Microsoft isn’t subject to the [...]

0 comments Read the full article →

Roboto and the open source red herring

October 20, 2011

I largely agree with John Gruber and many others than Roboto is a bit of an ungainly beast of a font, although it’s much better than the hideous thing it replaces. But I think that John is missing the mark in this statement: This idea that designers who favor iOS criticize Android for being poorly [...]

3 comments Read the full article →

Malware, the Mac, and the wolf

May 6, 2011

John Gruber’s delivered a list of previous claims that the Mac is about to succumb to malware real soon now under the title of “Wolf!“ The analogy John’s making is that the pundits should all remember the tale of the boy who cried wolf. But, as my friend Graham pointed out, John’s missing something: at [...]

5 comments Read the full article →

Sometimes John Gruber just hits the spot perfectly

April 27, 2011

John Gruber arguing against the silliness that is Henry “Fraud, you say?” Blodget’s latest nonsense: “Keep in mind that Apple’s penalty for losing the PC war in the 1990s is that it is now the most profitable PC maker in the world.” Exactly.

0 comments Read the full article →

Nieman Journalism lab responds to John Gruber

March 2, 2011

Nieman Journalism Lab responds to John Gruber’s defence of the 30% Apple subscription take: “But if someone searches for and downloads The New York Times app — after the Times has spent more than a century building up its brand, as the cost of billions of dollars — can it really be said that Apple [...]

0 comments Read the full article →

The value carriers bring to Android

October 9, 2010

Commenting on Andy Rubin’s comment that “the carriers have a lot of value to bring” to Android, John Gruber asks: “What software on Android phones have the carriers added that’s any good at all?” I can think of one example: Verizon dropping Google search for Bing. But I suspect that this wasn’t the kind of [...]

2 comments Read the full article →

John Gruber, Joe Wilcox, and why comments are anti-web

June 16, 2010

Myself and John Gruber have had plenty of disagreements. John and I have debated the reasons for the relative lack of malware on the Mac. I’ve tweaked his tail over his habit of excoriating those who make predictions and get it wrong, and over some inconsistency in the way he views positive and negative figures [...]

29 comments Read the full article →

Apple’s quest for massive market share

April 9, 2010

John Gruber has an excellent post up on Apple’s apparent-restriction of cross-platform development tools on the iPhone. I largely agree with him – from Apple’s perspective this makes perfect sense, although it puts a massive spanner in the works for magazine publisers, who love Flash like a brother. But there’s one point that I disagree [...]

7 comments Read the full article →

Is it time for Apple to open up the App Store model?

February 26, 2010

I don’t often link to Daring Fireball, basically because I assume that you’re all reading it anyway. But in his post on Tits and Apps, John perfectly summarises the challenge that faces Apple in maintaining its mindshare with mobile developers: Apple sees the App Store as an aspect of its brand. Developers see the App [...]

0 comments Read the full article →

Daring Fireball’s wishful thinking

November 19, 2009

I totally understand where John Gruber is coming from with his post on “The OS Opportunity“. The problem is that there’s a whole lot of wishful thinking in there. First of all, go read John’s post. Rather than try and summarise here and potentially mischaracterise what he’s saying, you just go read it. Back? Good. [...]

8 comments Read the full article →

← Previous Entries