Re:The closest thing we'll ever get to an official Apple blog
by hurlasunder on Sunday April 18, 2010 @12:31AM
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Yep, this is a good description of his blog.
As a daily reader of his blog, there still is this deep, deep seated arrogance against any company other than Apple. Apple gets a fair set of positive and negative coverage, but any other company almost always gets _only_ negative coverage.
For example, the current frontpage has depressing things to say about Flip(Cisco), Adobe, RIM, Motorola, Goldman Sachs, Palm, Sony and Ning.
Positive mentions: Just 2. One each for Adobe(this is rare, and only because of hard evidence -- 2x speedup in Photoshop CS5) and Google. (One neutral mention of Unity).
The more worrying concept is that he is widely read by all of Apple's employees, all the way up to the top. Clearly some of his views resonate _in_to the company as well, so even if he is not on their payroll, I very much consider him an Apple evangelist, and take every negative comment of his with a huge pinch of salt.
As a daily reader of his blog, there still is this deep, deep seated arrogance against any company other than Apple. Apple gets a fair set of positive and negative coverage, but any other company almost always gets _only_ negative coverage.
For example, the current frontpage has depressing things to say about Flip(Cisco), Adobe, RIM, Motorola, Goldman Sachs, Palm, Sony and Ning.
Positive mentions: Just 2. One each for Adobe(this is rare, and only because of hard evidence -- 2x speedup in Photoshop CS5) and Google. (One neutral mention of Unity).
The more worrying concept is that he is widely read by all of Apple's employees, all the way up to the top. Clearly some of his views resonate _in_to the company as well, so even if he is not on their payroll, I very much consider him an Apple evangelist, and take every negative comment of his with a huge pinch of salt.