Anil Dash and Apple, Part Two

I recently wrote that Vox isn't good with Safari or iPhone and that one of their head honchos doesn't like Apple.  And I was wrong about everything.

I said Anil is the company's CTO, which I thought he was at one point, but I didn't bother to double-check.  He's a Vice President (Chief Evangelist) for Six Apart.

I said Vox doesn't support the iPhone, which is an over-broad statement.  Of cource Vox.com loads on the iPhone, I just wish there was an iPhone specific version available.  But that's a wish, not a big failing on Vox's part.  I know they have to prioritize, and adding an iPhone version may well be on that list somewhere.  Also, I work in web software, I know better than to say "It don't work!" without actually explaining the issue.

So here's one:  when I use Safari in the rich text editor and I start a new paragraph, Vox converts my two line breaks to three.  That's my single complaint with Safari on Vox.  It's not that big a deal, and I know Safari's often been the odd duck with rich editors that rely on advanced DOM scripting, so it's hardly unique to Vox.  I just had my "Anil hates Apple" conspiracy theory all revved up, and didn't bother to, oh, file a bug or something.

As for Apple, Anil and I used to disagree on all sorts of stuff on Metafilter many years ago.  One of the ongoing things we clashed on was that I'm a big time Apple fan and Anil (like many) stresses Apple is just a company, not a cult, nothing to be worshipped, and certainly not perfect.  Sometimes that central point (which I agree with) sounded a little more like "Apple sucks, and so do you."  (see also: owillis)

But Anil has a Mac now (and so does Oliver Willis), while still contending that Apple is just a company, and he's frustrated that any criticism of Apple causes such an uproar, as if you're not allowed to discuss Apple rationally.  And I agree that the Apple crowd does get too persnickety about criticism.

So my post was wrong, wrong, wrong, and mean spirited.  I apologize.