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The latest
flaming bomb from Mac blogger John Gruber: "How Leander Kahney Got Everything Wrong by Being a Fucking Jackass." Kahney's sin? Writing
Wired's latest cover story, ""How Apple Got Everything Right by Doing Everything Wrong." Kahney's thesis: Apple succeeds despite violating Google's "don't be evil" rules of business. Gruber's response? Name-calling, starting in the headline. Gruber attacks with stabbing frenzy:
The whole contrast-with-Google angle makes no sense, holds up to no scrutiny, and serves no purpose other than to reach the punchy conclusion that Apple is "irredeemably evil." By Kahney's logic, any company that is different from Google —- and clearly most companies are far more different from Google than Apple is —- is evil.
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Mac-fanboy blogger John Gruber posted an Amazon.com affiliate link for his readers to order Apple's new operating system, Leopard, on his website. So far,
579 orders have been placed — a $5,800 haul for Gruber, and $77,000 for Amazon. Not bad for a 5-minute post. [
Silicon Alley Insider]
"That's Jeff Gaspin, the president of the NBC Universal Television Group. So his number-one priority is piracy. Not making high-quality shows. Not forging a sponsorship or advertising model that is less annoying and distracting to viewers, such that they (the viewers) would be less likely to want to fast-forward the advertising messages. No, piracy, that's his top priority." — Blogger John Gruber, reacting to Gaspin's statement that "priacy was and is our no. 1 priority." [
Daring Fireball]
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