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Comment by 13r4v0 | Hacker News Reader

who is gruber.. Forgive me for being naive..

To be more verbose than molecule: Gruber is an Apple-focused blogger who gained a lot of influence in the Apple world over time. A lot of people interested in the Apple "world" follow his blog. So, if he were to get this problem and blog about it, Apple would make sure it'd be fixed fast…

I very much doubt that assertion. Gruber complains quite a bit, I can’t recognize any pattern of Apple fixing specifically the problems he has faster.

Fair enough. I don't have any evidence either way to be honest, I was mostly explaining why he was mentioned in the post.

Though, in any case, one thing you can be sure of is that when he blogs about something, it gets significant attention in the tech sphere. You wouldn't be able to link a fix directly to him afterwards, but I think it's fair to say that his blow-horn is loud enough to have some influence.

Supporting evidence: the lack of Markdown support in the Mail app

Or on Apple discussion forums.

Dude, the word "Gruber" is a hyperlink in the article. Just click on it.

Where on Gruber's website is his relevance to the subject made clear?

EDIT: No, seriously. If someone has no idea who Gruber is and they click through to his site, tell me where on the screen they would see information that answers the implicit question "Who is Gruber and why would him finding out about this problem aid its resolution".

You're right. It's not like the title of his page is "Gruber: Mac Fanboy #1"

I retract my snark, or at least a little bit of it.

Duly upvoted! I appreciate your willingness to keep an open mind.

It's result #2 in a Google search for "Gruber".

Daring Fireball blog author

Google "Gruber Apple" is your friend.

rtfa.

http://daringfireball.net/colophon/

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