How I Got the Google Voice/App Store Story Wrong

[mcav]

That's the right way to address mistakes. Gruber could have said nothing of the error, or he could have turned on his source. Instead, he took the time to investigate the error. That's class. Journalists take note.

[mwcremer]

+1 for admitting screwed up, -10 for laying it off on his single source. Why didn't he second-source it, like real journalists do?

[chipmunkninja]

Daring Fireball has taken a huge credibility hit in my eyes in the last couple of weeks. It's been approaching TechCrunch-style speculation and histrionics.

Yes, he deserves points for for admitting he was wrong - it takes a big person to do that. Personally, however, I would have preferred to see the articles not written in the first place until things were a bit more clear.

Perhaps this is inevitable when your blog suddenly becomes a significant source of revenue?

[stijnm]

Am I the only one thinking this is all rather convenient?

As any good PR team should do (and I know Apple's are excellent), after the big backlash they experienced over the GoogleVoice debacle, they are now slowly but surely turning it around.

OK, I am cynical, but using the old "you didn't understand my inflection" to win an argument is something I used against my sister - when I was 10.

[youngian]

Also, "according to both Apple’s and AT&T’s responses to the FCC inquiry, AT&T in fact played no role..."

So we're just taking their word for it? Did they provide any evidence that this was the case?

[sil3ntmac]

Props to tptacek for his comment a few weeks ago, when discussing this exact issue: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=779099

He nailed it.

[gehant]

A great example (seemingly effortless on Gruber's part) of integrity & accountability in journalism. Thank you.

[pistoriusp]

I don't see why so many people congratulate him on admitting that he made a mistake.

He got it wrong. He admitted it. Congratulations in order? No. It seems to me that it's a fairly natural way to do things that doesn't require a back pat, or are we really so arrogant?

[gjm11]

Empirically, it seems that pundits who make mistakes rarely admit it. Therefore, admitting it is evidence that he's got more integrity than most. (Or, of course, different readers, or a different mental model of what his readers care about, or something, but whatever it is it seems to produce similar results to integrity.)

[paul9290]

Overall the letters sent to the FCC doesn't not explain why Apple removed other Google Voice 3rd party apps from the app store around this same time. They were approved and in the store to use in the Spring, but once all this Google Voice hoopla occurred they were removed?

Still fishy to me!

[mistermann]

Oh....so, the app isn't rejected...it just.....hasn't been approved. Ok, you've won back my trust apple!

[BRadmin]

Any chance this was Apple's way of disseminating misinformation to track down a leaker?

[st3fan]

Sounds like he got a call from a lawyer.

[yhuiuyggb]

So ATT don't say which apps Apple approve. It's simply that app store managers have to guess which apps would annoy their only phone connection supplier