alt Hacker NewsI never understood why daringfireball is such a famous blogger. They seem totally insane to me.
Claiming Steve Jobs was two steps ahead of cancer, the same guy who compared himself to Jesus and Gandi, the same guy who ate berries and nuts thinking he could flush the cancer out of his body, always two steps ahead huh?
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I read two steps as a physical metaphor—i.e., it was following him closely—and not like a chess metaphor—I.e., two moves ahead.
Ignoring the Stever Jobs quip, I agree - I really don't think we should care of his opinions on Apple (or on most things).
I agree that I have no idea why people read this guy... Like in a "I must be genuinely out of the loop" type way. I feel like it's really romanticizing or fanboying.
Like I enjoy my apple products, and I'm sure glad Apple wasn't run by a psycho like Musk, and didn't put Ads in the OS like Microsoft. But I don't think any of this is heroic or anything. Like if anybody's a hero it's probably the open-source guys who do it for no money at all.
Here's the full context of that quote:
> In August 2011, Steve Jobs was sick. For years he’d managed to stay a step, sometimes two, ahead of the pancreatic cancer he’d been battling since 2003, but no more.