Comment by jack-r-abbit

13 years ago

My favorite part about this is that Gruber has been repeating the speculation that the chip was not manufactured by Samsung. He turned out to be wrong. When others are wrong with their "Claim Chowder" (as he likes to call it) he shits all over then. But this is all you get from him when he is wrong: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/09/20/a7

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9oliYQjP  13 years ago

If you look at his other posts for the day they're all short statements. Maybe he's just in a particularly non-verbose mood.

  • Marazan  13 years ago

    He almost always does short statements often of a slightly ambiguous nature. This helps him avoid having to say he's wrong in the future.

    His sterling analysis (i.e. complete failure to see it'd be a success) of the Galaxy Note monster phones is a fine example of this.

melange  13 years ago

Gruber reported the speculation as just that - speculation. He didn't write crazy opinions about how 'Samsung was doomed' or how 'Samsung's CEO should step down' etc. etc.

His swift acknowledgement of when he was wrong was entirely appropriate.

The people who be calls out with 'claim chowder' make ludicrous assertions, and never acknowledge they were wrong.

Very different.

  • jack-r-abbit  13 years ago

    He has used that speculation to kind of refute other people's different speculations. So he did more than just report it... he bought into it and used it to tell other people they were wrong.