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I really like Apple products. In the office where I work, it’s silly, but it’s commonly known that I don’t keep very abreast of current affairs, unless it’s related in some way to my iPhone or Apple in general. Sad, probably, but true.

In the world of Apple rumour-mongering, internet-hyping and Apple’s insane distortion field (or is it only relegated to Jobs?) there aren’t many calm level-headed voices.

I have to say, though, that pretty much my absolute favourite writer around all of this info has to be John Gruber of Daring Fireball. It’s almost as though he actually thinks about what he wants to say before he writes it. Like - imagine that - a considered approach to writing? Impressive! ;-) I think that this may potentially be the difference between amateur writers and professional writers, and it’s nice that it’s obviously becoming more valuable again since newspaper journalists seem to have lost so much of their reputable veracity from former “epochs”.

He always manages to bring a sensible set of predictions, nay even a sensible set of words set together to form a coherent and cohesive whole, and he presents it in an informative and interesting way. His latest suite of comments addressing the iphone rumours are very much continued evidence of this. He’s looked at what has happened in the past, done some abstraction, put a good bit of nous into it and arrived at a sensible solution that it’s almost impossible to refute the likelihood of.

He’s cool :)

Props, John!