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For six years, the Internet Nexus served as my technology blog, but I've since started blogging at the SuperSite Blog instead. If you're looking for the blog, please head there. --Paul

Friday, September 03, 2004

We’ve Never Even Heard of This ‘John Gruber’ of Which You Speak

Well, he's done it again, except for once, he's done it with a startlingly low number of words. John Gruber, again, has proven that he's the most overrated "Mac analyst" on the Web with an inane comment following an otherwise correct assessment of quote by a Microsoft executive. "Why, I’m sure [Microsoft] even decided on the name of their weekly email newsletter years ago: [Sign up for New Music Tuesdays, just like the Apple newsletter]," Gruber writes. "I mean, what's Microsoft supposed to do? Release their new music on Wednesdays?" Uh, John. The music industry (and video/DVD industry) releases new cotent on Tuesday. Microsoft isn't copying Apple, it's doing what all music retailers are doing: Releasing new tracks on Tuesday. That's why Apple does it. That's why Best Buy does it. That's why Microsoft does it.

Obviously.

UPDATE: Gruber accepts adds from RealNetworks' Rhapsody service, which doesn't run on the Mac. Does that qualify as ironic? I think it might.

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