Gruber on product reviews: the feel of it, not the think of it
John Gruber, in his interview with Shawn Blanc, discusses his approach to writing reviews:
One of my favorite quotes of all time, probably my very favorite, is this one from Stanley Kubrick: “Sometimes the truth of a thing is not so much in the think of it, as in the feel of it.” A lot of times when I’m reviewing something, what I’m trying to do is capture the feel of it, rather than the think of it.
I think he usually succeeds in capturing “feel”. Wil Shipley’s first-impressions review of the MacBook Air is a great example of this, too.
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