June 2008 « The Angry Drunk

Mommy, Apple’s Being Mean Again

By The Angry Drunk

Over at TUAW.com they’re running a story under the headline “Are iPhone app devs getting a raw deal?” The gist of the post is that iPhone devs are possible getting boned because Apple apparently won’t be cutting them a check until the developer’s cut of the revenue is at least $250.00 (this is based on a [...]

Open Letter to Steve Jobs

By The Angry Drunk

Steve, my man, for the love of all that’s holy, just rename Software Update to “Apple Magic Installer Program” or something so that idiotic link-baiting douchebags like this can shut the fuck up.

More Fun From the Psystards

By The Angry Drunk

Good lords I just had an aneurysm. I just noticed via MacNN that the nimrods over at Psystar are shipping “servers” with Leopard as an option. What sort of rampaging moron would actually run a hackintosh as a proper server? I can understand the impetuous for the average freetard to build a hackintosh for personal use. They’re [...]

The Great iPhone Price Debate

By The Angry Drunk

I’m not going to be arsed to dig up any links to the ongoing debate over whether the iPhone 3G is or isn’t actually cheaper, or a good deal. Instead I’m going to sum this up in simple terms even the simpletons in the blogokleinbottle can understand:

If you already own an iPhone (2G) and don’t [...]

This Is Why Reason Matters

By The Angry Drunk

Today this story popped up on my radar via Skeptico. The basic story is, the classroom aide of an autistic girl in Ontario Canada went to a “psychic” who cold-read the aide and came to the determination that the autistic girl was being sexually abused. Now, in a rational world, when presented with this allegation the [...]

I’ve Seen the Light

By The Angry Drunk

Thanks to Crooks and Liars.

Google Ain’t All That

By The Angry Drunk

I’ve been following various forum and blog posts regarding the Apple MobileMe announcement; and I see a trend that’s beginning to annoy me. Inevitably, at some point someone will make a comment along the lines of, “I don’t see why anyone would bother with this when there’s Google Mail, Calendar, etc.” Without going into an analysis [...]

Thoughts on the iPhone 3G Pricing

By The Angry Drunk

Now that the blogokleinbottle is coming down from the WWDC keynote crack-hits, some of the denizens of blogoland are realizing that the iPhone 3G isn’t actually the second coming of Jesus (gasp!) One of the biggest themes that I’m picking up surrounds the pricing changes. I’m not going to link to any of the various posts breaking [...]