February 2008 « The Angry Drunk

PayPal on Security?

By The Angry Drunk

This is so rich I just got the fucking gout. PayPal actually opining Safari’s anti-phishing capabilities! PayPal, the company that put phishing on the map, and is well know for ganking their clients’ dough. I’ve got a suggestion for Apple if they want to make Safari more secure…block PayPal.

Suggestion to Gawker on How to Fix the Consumerist’s Shitty, Shitty Comments

By The Angry Drunk

Ban every fuck who includes the phrase, “I don’t think we’re getting the whole story here.” and it’s variants. Seriously, you’ll lose 80% of the comments, but the average intelligence of the remaining comments will go up by 800%, so it’s an overall win.

Suck It Ionic Breeze!!

By The Angry Drunk

Ha! While, in this economy, it pains me to see any company in financial problems (mainly on account of the average workers that will actually take the hit). This makes me laugh. Who’d have thunk it, a business model based on selling overpriced crap to morons with more money than sense isn’t doing so well. At least the CEO will be ok. I mean, think of the CEO’s!!!

More Dreaming From the Mac Blogosphere.

By The Angry Drunk

Sweet beer-battered Christ with a side of cole slaw. For the life of me, I’m trying to figure out what the fuck this is supposed to be about. Seriously, what is the argument here? That the AppleTV needs an ability to play DVDs? I suppose that you can argue that, although I would place that argument firmly in the “if wishes were horses” category. Anyone with two neurons to rub together can see that el jeffe Jobs couldn’t give two shits about letting us access content that we’ve obtained from anywhere other than the iTunes Store. But what, in the name of Cthullu, does the MacBook Air have to do with the price of whores in Reno. Or the digression into the history of Winamp and iTunes. Let me type this as slowly and clearly as I can. Here is Apple’s digital media strategy in 2 bullet points:

Buy shit from the iTunes Store Play it on an Apple branded device (iPod, iPhone, Mac, AppleTV, etc)

That’s it. To paraphrase Jeff Goldblum, there ain’t no fucking step 3. Apple has exactly one goal…make money for fucking Apple. Notice how both points in my master strategy above

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