I feel Daring Fireball has been a bit off the mark lately, as Gruber ages, writing like an old person slowly waking to the imploding world around him. Thankfully, he’s not veering to the right-wing side of that teeter, but it took DF a painful while to realize both the GOP and Musk are disastrous black holes.

And so THIS I feel is the old, astute DF. My co-workers keep half-joking, with wan smiles, about Apple buying Disney, but I do NOT believe it will happen.

https://daringfireball.net/2023/08/disney_and_apple_sitting_in_a_tree#fnr5-2023-08-16

Disney and Apple, Sitting in a Tree

I don’t think Apple has any such interest or appetite. Nor do I think Disney envisions its own future as anything but the independent company it has been since Walt and Roy Disney founded The Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio 100 years ago.

Daring Fireball
Well, this is another time I’m not hash-tagging any of this because I simply don’t want to deal with any of the headache of these thoughts of mine gaining “too much attention” or whatever!