Time​.com Has a Shitty Grasp of Economics

July 7th, 2008, by The Angry Drunk

I usu­ally reserve my bile for the bit play­ers in the blo­gosklein­bot­tle; but good lord this is a shitty arti­cle. There’s so much wrong with this piece of crap that I don’t know where to begin. In brief, the gist of the arti­cle is that some­how Apple is gyp­ping users because they’re allow­ing devel­op­ers to charge for iPhone appli­ca­tions. Yeah, let that one sink in a bit. I really don’t have the time to com­pletely decon­struct this steam­ing turd; but here are a few choice bits.

So why can’t all iPhone apps be free? Well, quite sim­ply, because peo­ple are still will­ing to pay for them. Apple cur­rently gen­er­ates most of its rev­enue from up-front sales — whether it’s for MacBooks, iTunes or iPhones. And the pay approach for mobile games, ring­tones and videos has long been used by other tech pur­vey­ors like Verizon and Research In Motion, and even third-party app stores like Handango. “It is a his­tor­i­cal busi­ness model,” notes Kevin Burden of ABI Research. Buyers are will­ing to pony up, though, because of the cachet of the Apple brand.

Jesus Christ on a pogo-stick, did I just read a quote from a “research” firm

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Hey Media Douchebags!

July 7th, 2008, by The Angry Drunk

So help me, if I hear one more of you lack­wits call­ing the AT&T iPhone plan pric­ing “evil” I’m com­ing over there and beat­ing you sense­less. Here’s a per­spec­tive les­son for you hyper­bolic fuck-nuts. Hitler was “evil”, Pol Pot was “evil,” Ted Bundy was “evil.” $35.00 a month for unlim­ited data and 200 SMS mes­sages is incon­ve­nient at best.

In con­clu­sion, suck a dick.

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