| > “Today we discuss”... Meaning, today I write. Because what I say is necessary. Can’t just be silent. When is he gonna give up the ghost? He’s not at Apple for a reason. Yet he’s obsessed with them. No one at Apple sought him out before going in any direction. He’s been a non-entity there for two decades. Yet he can’t stop trying to tell us all how to think about everything they do. Gruber is at least a little more attached to Apple. But the two of them sound like two old cranks: one consistently fawning over all Apple decisions, the other fretting. I don’t know what it’s like to devote one’s life to discussing a single corporation, even one as wildly successful and entertaining as Apple. I always wonder if these guys ever wake up and think, “Maybe today I’ll just delete my blog, stop reading press releases and tech news about Apple, and go build that cabin or walk a trail”. Maybe they’re terrified no one would miss them? Or maybe they’ll find that life is better and that they wasted the last few decades of their very precious and limited life? I don’t know. Maybe they are so enmeshed it just never occurs to them. It just always makes me sad to see their posts. Maybe that says more about me in some sad way than it does about them. Don’t know. |