<story><title>The iPhone 5S and 5C</title><url>http://daringfireball.net/2013/09/the_iphone_5s_and_5c</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mrmaddog</author><text>I really enjoy Gruber&amp;#x27;s holistic reviews of Apple&amp;#x27;s new devices.  He doesn&amp;#x27;t attempt to be Anandtech (whose reviews I found thoroughly engrossing and well written), but rather he paints a picture of how the device &lt;i&gt;feels&lt;/i&gt; and how it fits into Apple&amp;#x27;s larger strategy, which I find equally important.&lt;p&gt;One interesting thing I&amp;#x27;ve discovered about Gruber&amp;#x27;s columns is that you often have to read between the lines and get accustomed to how he presents his narrative. Praise for Apple is freely handed out, weaknesses are noted, and praise for other companies is guarded (when said company is in competition with Apple). For example, he notes the weaknesses of Siri in a generally positive sentence, and states that &amp;quot;Google Now is faster.&amp;quot; I think he would agree that Google Now is not only faster, but also provides better results with better comprehension, and really the only downside is that you can&amp;#x27;t access it with a long-hold on the home button. That&amp;#x27;s not something I&amp;#x27;d expect Gruber to say. However, once I recognized how he couches his concerns, I&amp;#x27;ve found that he has some of the most insightful, nuanced and thoroughly processed views about Apple overall.</text></comment>
<story><title>The iPhone 5S and 5C</title><url>http://daringfireball.net/2013/09/the_iphone_5s_and_5c</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>r0h1n</author><text>Gruber gets my goat like very few other writers do.&lt;p&gt;Not because he&amp;#x27;s wrong, because he&amp;#x27;s usually right.&lt;p&gt;Not because he&amp;#x27;s shallow, because he&amp;#x27;s usually very deep and insightful.&lt;p&gt;Not because he&amp;#x27;s rude, because he&amp;#x27;s polite even when dismissing other&amp;#x27;s stupid observations.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s in spite of all this.&lt;p&gt;I think it&amp;#x27;s because I know &lt;i&gt;before&lt;/i&gt; reading a Gruber piece what &lt;i&gt;its conclusion will be&lt;/i&gt;, namely &amp;quot;Apple did something great, amazing and innovative. Here&amp;#x27;s how and why.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s no surprise in his conclusions. If it&amp;#x27;s about an Apple product or decision, I know what the ending will be.&lt;p&gt;P.S. Sure there may be a few times when Gruber has criticized Apple, but to me they feel statistically insignificant.</text></comment>