January 25th, 2012, by The Angry Drunk Craig Grannell:
I find the argument that there has to be — or even that there will be — one dominant player in the mobile market without foundation. If we look back through the history of technology, and even examine the present, the PC/Mac market was an aberration. You don’t have people arguing that only one company will become dominant in TVs, cars, sound systems, and so on.
I’ve made this argument before myself. Trying to use the history of the PC/Mac market as a model for any other market is stupid and doomed to failure.
January 23rd, 2012, by The Angry Drunk 
Daniel Steinberg on the hideous and draconian iBooks Author EULA: On the other hand, the work is my own. I’ve been told by a publisher that they want a second edition of one of my books. Their conditions on me are that I drop this series of ebooks I’m working on because it might compete with the title. When I said no they responded that that’s ok they’ll just get someone else to revise my book. My book. It’s not really mine. Even though the copyright is in my name, that turns out not to mean very much. So am I bothered by the iBooks Author EULA? No. But maybe that’s because I’ve been signing contracts with traditional publishers for so long. It’s always fun to see how the tone changes once the blogoratti stop braying and the professionals speak up. via Daring Fireball
January 23rd, 2012, by The Angry Drunk 
Everyone and their cousin has linked to or blogged about this article in The New York Times about the rise of foreign manufacturing but I think it’s still worthy of pointing out. It’s a rare treat to read an article on this topic that doesn’t appear to be written by complete fucktards. By all means, use Apple as an example of the issue — but don’t pretend that some hyperbolic screed in ZDNet blaming all ills on Apple or some jackass online petition is going to change shit. But real change takes work, and working is hard.
January 19th, 2012, by The Angry Drunk 
Today Apple held their much-anticipated education announcement at the Guggenheim museum in New York. As you are probably aware, Apple announced three new products during the event: iBooks 2, iTunesU.app and iBooks Author. I’m not going to go into any deep analysis of the event. It’s been so long since I was even vaguely involved with the education market that I really can’t muster up any deep insight into Apple’s initiatives. As usual, though, the reaction to Apple’s announcements by the blogoratti does provide a rich and fertile ground of annoying stupidity which we can harvest. One emerging theme annoys me in particular: the idea that Apple is exerting Draconian control over how you can sell content produced with iBooks Author. Continue reading The Answer Is in the Name
January 18th, 2012, by The Angry Drunk
I mentioned before that the Angry Mac Bastards would be performing live at Macworld | iWorld again this year (details here). In addition I’m happy to announce the inaugural Angry Mac Bastards Drinkathon. If your going to be in town on Thursday, January 26th we’d love to get you shit-faced.
January 16th, 2012, by The Angry Drunk 
Alex Brooks: The site I want to read doesn’t churn out the same news and rumours that thousands of other sites have, the site I want to read doesn’t post fanatical rumours from idiotic sources. To make matters worse this churn effect often comes with a form of chinese whispers, led mainly by eccentric, traffic seeking asshole bloggers who are unable to distinguish fact and fiction, unable to pick up the phone to a public relations team to check a detail or more unbelievably spend the time to produce something thoughtful. It’s nice to see yet another tech blogger see the light. It really doesn’t take much to rise above the morass of rumor-mongery and link bait. All it takes is a little integrity. via The Loop
January 11th, 2012, by The Angry Drunk
Really BGR? Are you shit-bags so desperate for fucking table scraps that you’re going to actually run with Jeremy Horwitz’s bullshit claims that he’s seen an iPad 3? Congratulations fuckwits, that swishing you hear is the sound of what tiny bit of credibility you had left flushing down the toilet. Boy Genius indeed.
January 10th, 2012, by The Angry Drunk
Craig Grannell: But we forget. Multitouch is obvious. Pinch-zoom is obvious. Slide-to-unlock is obvious. The manner in which Apple designed its iPhone, its iPad, and even iOS itself? Obvious. Then why didn’t anyone else do this stuff first? Why did it take Apple’s iPhone to kickstart a smartphone and tablet revolution? If the slew of cloners out there all argue Apple didn’t really invent anything new, why didn’t they have iPhone– and iPad-like devices in the market before Apple? Why did Google’s Android rather rapidly shift from being a BlackBerry to an iPhone if the iPhone was so obvious? Exactly. Sometimes we forget how much the world of consumer technology has changed over a very short period of time — and many people conveniently forget exactly how much of that change was driven by Apple.
January 6th, 2012, by The Angry Drunk
For the third year running Angry Mac Bastards will be doing our schtick live at Macworld | iWorld. If you’re coming to the show, stop by and say hello. We promise to be only mildly abusive.
January 5th, 2012, by The Angry Drunk
Fuck.
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