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Why did Apple ice out the most famous Apple blogger?

2025/6/18
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John Gruber
知名技术博客作者和播客主持人，长期关注苹果产品和技术趋势。
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John Gruber: 我认为苹果公司在产品更新和人工智能（AI）策略上正面临一些挑战。虽然苹果的硬件产品，如Mac电脑，在市场上表现出色，但Siri的质量却一直未能达到预期水平，这在公司内部也是一个长期存在的谜团。苹果公司似乎在AI领域有些落后，并且在与开发者的关系上也存在一些问题。我认为苹果需要重新审视其AI策略，并改善与开发者的关系，以确保其平台能够持续吸引优秀的应用程序和服务。我个人也经历了一些波折，因为我批评了苹果公司，但我觉得保持独立性对我的工作至关重要。我始终坚持写我真正想写的东西，并且相信我的读者也会喜欢阅读这些内容。

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This chapter analyzes the changes in the new iOS update, focusing on user experience and interface design. It discusses changes to the Photos app, the Phone app, and the overall visual refresh called "liquid glass", examining whether these changes are significant enough for the average user to notice and how they might impact user experience.
  • iOS update changes, including Photos app layout, Phone app interface, and visual refresh ("liquid glass"), are discussed.
  • The impact of these changes on average users is analyzed, considering their potential to cause confusion or enhance the user experience.
  • The discussion distinguishes between interface changes that are noticeable to average users and those that only tech enthusiasts might appreciate.

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If you want smart, nuanced insight into Apple’s products and would-be products, you turn to John Gruber, who’s been blogging about this stuff for more than two decades at his Daring Fireball) site.

So in March, when Gruber announced that Something is Rotten in the State of Cupertino) — focusing on Apple’s botched plans to imbue its ailing Siri service with state-of-the-art AI — lots of people paid attention. Including, apparently, folks at the very top of the Apple org chart.

I talked to Gruber about the fallout from that post. Which is pretty interesting! But there’s a lot more going on in this conversation. It’s partly about the friction Apple has been generating lately — not just about its AI efforts, but the way it runs its App Store, and the way it interacts with developers — and why all of that does and doesn’t matter.

And it’s also about the delightfully retro practice of running an ad-supported blog in 2025. That works very well for Gruber, but it seems like the new Grubers of the world are doing their work on YouTube or Substack. He’s got some thoughts about that, too.

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