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Re:Apple Limits Lengthy iPhone X Testing for Most Reviewers by oneeyedpigeon on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @05:35PM (#15596803)
I think that's post 3/3 in a series of "Thank god Apple gave X a review copy before me" — it's incredibly bitter and a bit unseemly, to be honest.
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Re:Apple Limits Lengthy iPhone X Testing for Most Reviewers by twoodfin on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @05:42PM (#15596849)
To be fair to Gruber, I think his criticism of the PR for the X is that it displays a lack of taste. If Google picked slack-jawed YouTubers to be the first wave of press for the Pixel 2 I bet he’d have a similar, if more derisive, reaction.
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Re:Apple Limits Lengthy iPhone X Testing for Most Reviewers by dilap on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @06:04PM (#15596993)
Eh, that's just Gruber's style, always a bit of an asshole. Sometimes it's amusing and sometimes it really grates, but you've got to admit it seems to be working for him.

Anyway, underneath the presentation, he has a good point that it's pretty weak that Apple chose complete puff-piece reviewers to get initial seed units.

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Re:Apple Limits Lengthy iPhone X Testing for Most Reviewers by theyregreat on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @06:16PM (#15597070)
Probably drives a Mercedes, but not so bad as a BMW.
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Re:Apple Limits Lengthy iPhone X Testing for Most Reviewers by kemiller on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @06:02PM (#15596979)
I don't get the impression that he was denied a review unit, just that his embargo clears later. The Youtubers don't seem even to have been given a unit at all — just access to them in Apple facilities.
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Re:Apple Limits Lengthy iPhone X Testing for Most Reviewers by aetherson on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @06:04PM (#15596989)
He got a review unit 24 hours ago, per his most recent post.
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Re:Apple Limits Lengthy iPhone X Testing for Most Reviewers by kemiller on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @06:11PM (#15597033)
Right, so the youtubers were just sort of teaser reviews. I do think it's disdainful, and slightly obnoxious/elitist, but I don't read it as personal bitterness.
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Re:Apple Limits Lengthy iPhone X Testing for Most Reviewers by trb8 on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @05:57PM (#15596944)
> “Thank god Apple gave X a review copy before me”

Ah yes. Excellent usage of quotation marks for your interpretation of Gruber’s thoughts. Nothing at all dishonest about that.

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Re:Apple Limits Lengthy iPhone X Testing for Most Reviewers by henrikeh on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @03:24AM (#15599388)
Just to give a bit more context. Three recent posts use almost exactly this wording [0-2], but none of them include "before me".

[0]: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/10/30/allen-iphone-x

[1]: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/10/30/fashion-iphone-...

[2]: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/10/30/iphone-x-highsn...

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