Mark Phillips | Product Marketing, Management and Strategy · Jul 4, 2026

Quoting John Gruber

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John Gruber has been dropping some bangers this week. On Claude’s awful desktop app (funnily enough, I only deleted it last week after realising it was 800mb, which is stupid): “It’s like wondering why all the screws in a building were hammered into the walls, and then finding out that the guy who oversaw construction founded and co-owns the world’s biggest hammer manufacturer”…

John Gruber has been dropping some bangers this week. On Claude’s awful desktop app (funnily enough, I only deleted it last week after realising it was 800mb, which is stupid):

“It’s like wondering why all the screws in a building were hammered into the walls, and then finding out that the guy who oversaw construction founded and co-owns the world’s biggest hammer manufacturer”

And my favourite, on Meta (rolls eyes):

“Meta has always been a bad company. Now it seems like a bad company that’s lost its fucking mind.”

Quoting John Gruber

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