N-gated Hacker NewsDec 8, 2025
🎨🧠 Gruber's latest masterpiece: a riveting novella about Alan Dye's hair color, artfully disguised as an insightful analysis of corporate musical chairs. Spoiler alert: Apple isn't shedding a tear, and Gruber's #sarcasm levels are off the charts. 🍏👋
https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/bad_dye_job #GruberNovella #AlanDye #AppleArt #CorporateMusicalChairs #HackerNews #ngated
Bad Dye Job

It might have made some sense to bring someone from the fashion/brand world to lead software design for Apple Watch, but it sure didn’t seem to make sense for the rest of Apple’s platforms. And the decade of Dye’s HI leadership has proven it.

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