The iPhone X
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The iPhone X
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#2"After two months using an iPhone X, I’m convinced Apple succeeded. The iPhone X is a triumph, a delightful conceptual modernization of a ten-year-old platform that, prior to using the iPhone X, I didn’t think needed a modernization."
There's the tldr. And for anyone accustomed to Gruber's writing, it was a predictable conclusion.
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#3This is an incredibly fanboy-y article even by Gruber standards. I'm not sure he's physically capable of criticizing Apple, even if he wanted to.
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#4This reads a lot like sponsored content.
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#5This is a beautiful way of looking at the X from a very zoomed out perspective. To an extent, I agree with much of what’s said and felt the same way when starting to use my X.
But, and this is the important but here, we’re existing users. I saw iPhones develop over time, so for me this is evolution and I put up with it. But what about new users, that are new to the platform.
Apple made some interactions so unintuitive that even I was confused. One example is purchasing an app. Pre-X, you’d tap the “get” button and place your finger on the home button or enter your password. With the X you have to tap the button, look at your device, and then follow the most unintuitive animation to actually press the physical side button.
That’s where I think we start to see the difference between evolution and compromise.
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#6"After two months using an iPhone X, I’m convinced Apple succeeded. The iPhone X is a triumph, a delightful conceptual modernization of a ten-year-old platform that, prior to using the iPhone X, I didn’t think needed a modernization." There's the tldr. And for anyone accustomed to Gruber's writing, it was a predictable conclusion.
Thank you, I assumed as much.
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#7This reads a lot like sponsored content.
Well, I hope it was sponsored.
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#8This reads a lot like sponsored content.
I guess given the niche market of Daring Fireball, in a somewhat indirect way it is sponsored content. Gruber will make more money when Apple is more popular.
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#9This is an incredibly fanboy-y article even by Gruber standards. I'm not sure he's physically capable of criticizing Apple, even if he wanted to.
While it does read as a fanboy article, Gruber has criticized Apple at least a few times in the past. Here's one example, in particular.
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#10This reads a lot like sponsored content.
Not directly. It’s more like, “Daring Fireball, brought to you by John Gruber, brought to you by Apple.”