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John Gruber

How I’ve spent my career getting it wrong (and don’t regret a thing)

September 23, 2009

From 1995 to 2006 or thereabouts, I was a full-time journalist mostly working on the Mac market. I did pretty-much every kind of writing you can do about Macs, from help and advice to sermon-on-the-mount editorials. But most of the time, I was that most oft-critiqued of animals: a reporter, a writer of news. A [...]

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Daring Fireball is wrong about Microsoft’s weakness

July 31, 2009

I am, you’ll have noted, an argumentative sod. This is a great source of irritation to my dear other half, who rolls her eyes as I shout at the television or Internet. But sometimes, you read something and… well… you just have to respond. Such is the case with John Gruber’s post on “Microsoft’s long, [...]

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John Gruber questions NPD figures, just as NPD figures turn against Apple

March 25, 2009

Having seen the NPD report which claimed Apple’s retail market share has dropped, John Gruber takes issue: “It’s never been clear to me why reports like this are reported as fact. NPD doesn’t have some sort of magic access to Apple’s sales numbers, and Apple does not release monthly sales data.” Which is interesting, given [...]

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So why didn’t the first iPhone have 3G, again?

June 16, 2008

When the first iPhone came out, a lot of noise was made about the lack of 3G. Specifically, battery life was cited by lots of people as the primary reason for this apparent oversight. Headlines like "Jobs: battery life issues delaying 3G iPhone" even suggested that battery life was the canonical reason for no 3G. [...]

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