" And John Gruber, of Daring Fireball, exclaimed "How in the world did no one think of this before?

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Blogger John Gruber, however, has a talent for sorting through the muck.

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John Gruber, a tech blogger who closely follows Apple, said his sources had confirmed that Apple had until midway through 2013 to run on its licence deal with Google.

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His logic, which reverses the calculations that Daring Fireball blogger John Gruber used to predict the screen dimensions of the iPad Mini almost four months before it was officially announced.

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John Gruber has a pretty good guess (I think) that perhaps Scott was well-protected when Steve Jobs, the guy who hired him out of Stanford to work at NeXT and mentored him, was around.

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It's not as cut-and-dry as last night's declaration that a new Retina Display-equipped iPod Touch is due in the next few weeks, but our man John Gruber just put up a lengthy post on the long-rumored CDMA iPhone for Verizon in which he says the mythical handset is codenamed "N92" and has reached "engineering verification test" (EVT) status.

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Gruber, who in the 1980s invested in Latin America for the value-oriented Sir John Templeton, looks for openings in countries emerging from crises.

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