I frequently, yet masochistically read the blog of Apple-fanaticism known as Daring Fireball Daring Fireball: Twice I have caught his typos yet thanked once. where in the author poops on the missed release date of the application Pixelmator, an upcoming consumer-level Photoshop competitor. To Mr. Gruber, any announced and unreleased product is thought of and labeled as vaporware (because he likes to redefine neologistic words). His post:
1. He links to his post quoted below.Pixelmator: Still Vaporware
Note to everyone who complained about my skepticism that they’d ship in July: Told you so[1].
Pixelmator is an application to which I’m looking forward, a for the rest of us graphics app that is the cooler, hipper little brother to Photoshop. Its dashboard-style inspectors are dark and translucent, which nicely recede from attention when working on a composition.
I wondered why someone would write “I told you so” to his readers about the development of this promising app, and generally be a total caustic fuck to an independent Mac development team. His first post about the product (and where I learned of it):
Pixelmator
Vaporware image-editing app with HUD-crazy UI, based on the image manipulating mojo of Mac OS X’s Core Image APIs. Supposedly available in “late July” for $59.
Update: I don’t want to read too much into it, but it’s amusing that Pixelmator’s downloadable “press images” were created using Photoshop CS3.
Catty! Ree-ooww! Fissss! Fissss!
Mr. Gruber states that he doesn’t want to read too much into it, but then continues by reading the fuck into it, insinuating the apparent dubiousness of how a team working on an unfinished product is not using that unfinished product for the screenshots of how said unfinished product will look in the future. It would also seem to be that I, an average dim-witted reader, am to believe that the Pixelmator’s press images are, indeed, not press images at all, but rather something rather suspicious, or so the quotation marks tell me. Why, I never!
So, I wondered all of this until I found his picture on the Internets. John Gruber, file photo:
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