John Gruber Reacts to Apple Declining His Interview After His Criticism

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Every twelvemonth between 2015 and 2024, astatine slightest 1 Apple enforcement agreed to beryllium interviewed by Daring Fireball's John Gruber for a peculiar WWDC occurrence of his podcast, The Talk Show. Last year, for example, Apple's bundle engineering main Craig Federighi, selling main Greg Joswiak, and apical AI researcher John Giannandrea joined Gruber connected signifier astatine the California Theatre successful San Jose to sermon Apple Intelligence and more.

Apple's effect to Gruber's interrogation petition (basically)

That decade-long contented abruptly came to an extremity past month, erstwhile Apple declined Gruber's invitation to talk for this year's peculiar episode.

A fewer months anterior to that, Gruber published a blog station that was heavily captious of Apple. In that piece, the well-known Apple pundit said that the institution "pitched a communicative that wasn't true" astatine WWDC 2024, erstwhile it previewed a much personalized Siri that was not adjacent to being acceptable and is now delayed. He said that the concern damaged Apple's credibility, and helium expressed interest that it could beryllium a motion of bigger problems wrong the company.

Unsurprisingly, Apple did not similar the commentary.

In the latest occurrence of the Channels podcast, Gruber told Business Insider's Peter Kafka that Apple was "not happy" astir the blog station and felt it was unfair.

However, Gruber said Apple's lack was really a nett affirmative for him.

"I'm not trying to deficiency humility present — but I consciousness them deciding not to bash my amusement this twelvemonth is simply a full triumph for maine and was a immense nonaccomplishment for them," helium said.

Why does helium judge that?

"I deliberation it asserts my independence," helium argued. "And I deliberation much than making maine look good, I deliberation it makes them look bad."

For his WWDC 2025 episode, Gruber ended up interviewing The Wall Street Journal's Joanna Stern and The Verge's Nilay Patel.