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John Gruber's obsession with being right - On The Verge.

2011-12-13
the only thing I'm obsessed with is being right all the time and it's you do agree that in certain cases there are there can be you know varying degrees of right rap you're either right or you're wrong well I mean the battery life to you is like this is this is how this is best advice you know let me get back to that okay all I'm obsessed with is being right and so the way I look at it is I look back at like the last nine years I've been writing on on daring problem and most of what I've written about Apple has been very positive most of what I've written about their products have been positive and when I have conjectured as to how I think things are going to go for the company I for the most part I have said I think they're going to keep succeeding in these errors I look back at the last nine years and I think I was almost always right do you have have you calculated on a percentage basis something tells me you may have done you've thought about it right right and you know the time you've considered getting out right you know some charts and graphs on and I know the times you know the times that I have been wrongly kill me sure I and I and I feel the same way in fact you and I have have had public rather public disagreements about stuff that I've gotten wrong when you were kind of like you're wrong because that's obviously it is never going to have to tell someone that they're wrong right you have to bet you do of delight in telling someone I do I do it because it also means you get to be right in that moment exactly it's not as impersonal it's a personal weakness that I do take the light and pointing out when others are wrong yeah you know what and I look back and I did I look back on that one the 11th hour one yeah and it was a little it was unnecessarily mean it we should we actually the segment's for one quick second because I have other similar but but a long time ago in Ezard n gadget I had heard some stuff about the iPad 2 from a source pretty tested that's like 11 months well in our in our world I hate a lot has happened in 11 months I mean a lot is happening 11 months we're gonna get some of that but so I said look it's gonna have I forget what it was a high-resolution screen and like this SD slot which person I've spoken to was thought this is gonna have and that person had been dead on with other things and that you know of any how we had a big conversation you kind of called me out said this is BS right this is eleventh hour 11th hour my ass I believe was your expression right and because I said anything happened in the eleventh hour but we saw each other at that event for the ipad2 we talked and I said look there been other times that Apple has pulled something the last minute night the iPod Touch camera was one of the things that I mentioned right and you agreed right but I actually looked at noon I looked it up after our rehearsal and I went back and I actually mentioned that in that 11th hour post that yes Apple does change things at the 11th hour so I actually did mention right but you still be you're still like they're totally wrong this is not possible right well but even though you said it clearly was that was just a unique I'm very hurt about you had I'm not going to let this go you had a good source in January who you trusted and said it was irises but I had a golden source in Jack and so I knew about you and you right right you were right and I will just say though if you think about it common sense wise if you think about it with the iPod Touch I mean actually we're arguing this thing well it's just so real quick I until you're right they hadn't had a camera on it yet and they had one that was gonna have a camera and then literally like at the last possible minute they could make such a change I still don't I've never heard why right but for some reason they said you know what no camera and all they did was retool the silver back to get rid of the camera hole and boom there start popping off the factory line and then when they exit guys pop it open lo there's a little spot for where the camera was supposed to but you would agree that was an 11th hour check yes but that's the sort of thing you could do at the last minute yes is oh I think chains the back do not have a hole in it yeah whereas switching from iPad one resolution pixel resolution display to double yeah well I think I think maybe then it's a question of what you consider to be the 11th hour right right because my report was way before now else but you but you like double down on it on January 14 I did double down that's what did I double down I think are you sure yeah I thought that the January 14th report was that was before was announced right it was like it's not gonna happen that was the report yet maybe is you may your 11th our post was in response to me saying because this did happen you were like this is BS but I talked to the same source they said you know what it isn't happening they're not gonna do the screen they're not gonna do the SDI and then you were very upset about well yeah because I had to be right no because I know that the iPad 2 was never gonna have a Retina display so let's let's you were right about that I'll give you that and I've been and I've been ruling that that prediction ever since
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