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http://www.fakesteve.net/2010/04/gruber-wants-to-make-a-citi...

Fake Steve Jobs: "John, dude, I love you like a son, but you’re letting this get to you, it’s getting under your skin, you need to let it go"

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Yes, I'm being a gruber apologist, but that post was written days ago, before the raid. If anything, I think that there was a raid vindicates gruber's sense that this is serious business, and that the police are treating it as such.

The police are only treating it as serious business because it's a popular news item. (and it gets the DA's name in the papers)

I dunno, that seems more like a "lighting a joint in front of a police car" kind of thing. An offense that the police might let slide becomes a priority when it's done publicly or obviously.

They would risk their department's integrity for the sake of popularity?

  s/They/The DA/
  s/their/the police/

{edit} Also, the police will go after popular news items because their response will also get into the 'papers.' This way it looks to the public as if they are doing something. (The police may also feel there is public pressure to 'do something' due to the coverage of the crime.)

That post feels like it was ghost-written by someone who can't tap into the voice of the FSJ character. Or maybe Dan's having an off-day.

I love the pic, though.

It's funny because Fake Steve has now written at least four or five posts about the matter.

I'm nowhere near the apologist for Apple that Gruber is and the Gizmodo thing is way, way under my skin. The TechCrunch Twitter debacle is still under my skin for exactly the same reason.

Gruber is no Apple apologist, he's just too insightful to come up with rants and raves about how one could "fix" Apple's business with a simple adjustment — unlike everybody else with an opinion on Apple.

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