This Shit Needs to Stop!

August 5th, 2008, by The Angry Drunk

Breaking head­line from the jack-holes at iPodNN.

“Dev Team: iPhone 3G own­ers should avoid 2.0.1 update”

Ok, let’s see what’s wrong with this, start­ing with the headline.

“Dev Team:”

Which “Dev Team?” Apple’s? Someone who’s opin­ion I give two shits about? No, of course not. It’s the ever so mature cre­ators of the “Pwnage Tool”.

“iPhone 3G owners”

Wait, I’m an iPhone 3G owner! What’s the 2.0.1 update going to do to me? Absolutely noth­ing. To quote the article:

The cre­ators of the PwnageTool note that while the update is offi­cially meant to fix bugs, it also makes changes to the under­ly­ing base­band code, which could poten­tially block any future attempts to unlock an iPhone. At the least, the update undoes any jail­break­ing per­formed with PwnageTool.

Heavens To Murgatroyd, you mean Apple may feel the need to update their own hard­ware in a way that doesn’t nec­es­sar­ily play fair with “Pwnage”? The monop­o­list bastards!

To be fair, the blog post by the “Pwnage” peo­ple is a fair bit less FUDy than the iPodNN head­line; since they at least acknowl­edge the actual audi­ence that is effected by this. So I’ll have to direct the major­ity of my ire

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Tone Down the Hyperbole You Vapid Twats!

August 5th, 2008, by The Angry Drunk

Ok, so July 2008 isn’t going to go down in the annals of Apple his­tory as one of the company’s bet­ter months. The Mobile Me launch was han­dled badly at best, iPhone 3G demand exceeded sup­plies by a retarded mar­gin (oy to have that prob­lem), iPhone devel­op­ers are still unbear­ably shack­led by the “fuck­ing” NDA, and Apple was abysmally late with a set of secu­rity updates. No one who isn’t a com­plete and utter tool would argue that any of the above-mentioned issues is a good thing; but really, does every sin­gle story involv­ing them have to end with dire warn­ings of impend­ing Apple-doom?

Yes, Apple screwed the pooch big time on a few dif­fer­ent items here, but they’ve fucked up worse before, and I’ll bet you a shiny dime they fuck up worse some­time in the future. Look at this as a learn­ing oppor­tu­nity. In the mean­time, here’s a des­per­ate plea to the “jour­nal­ists” out there. Tone down the FUD and breath­less hyper­bole; it only serves to insult your read­ers’ intel­li­gence and make you look like a ninny. Thanks.

PS:

Apple is either “all mar­ket­ing and PR” or “has worth­less at PR.” Pick one, you can’t have both.

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I’m Not Dead.

August 5th, 2008, by The Angry Drunk

Just a quick note to my loyal read­ers (sorry started laugh­ing at that then lost my breath), I’m not actu­ally deceased. I’ve just been too busy/hungover/flu-infested to gen­er­ate a proper rant.

That is all.

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