August 7th, 2008, by The Angry Drunk So, I’m sitting here in my office, working diligently (seriously, for any potential employers out there, I’m working my ass off). I’m also seeing tweets fly by, and reading blog posts by Robert “I have more followers that God (literally, 31,617 vs 600 as of this posting)” Scoble shilling the latest New Media Douchebag Approved™ social blogging network whatever. Meanwhile, over in my email client a funny thing is happening. People I know, people I would even go so far as to call friends are emailing back and forth, planning a happy hour gathering for tomorrow (and incidentally accusing each other of being either hippies or red-necks). Email! I know, it’s fucking shocking. I mean, it’s so 1990’s. No Loopt, no Twitter, not even a dynamic group blog leveraging social networks. Fucking email. Even worse, and I’m embarrassed to admit this, some of us will actually telephone people not on the mailing list to give them the heads up. We may even use landlines. The point behind the snark here? This is what actual friends do; and this is the point that the New Media Douchebags fail to miss. Things like Twitter, and MySpace, and blogs, and Loopt are there
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August 7th, 2008, by The Angry Drunk Ok gang, I’m throwing this out there as support for my call for the blogokleinbottle to lay off the “Apple had a bad month, they’re doooomed” bullshit. Here is Chuq Von Rospach, a man who actually know that the hell he’s talking about (imagine that) commenting on the MobileMe launch fiasco, and Apple’s response. Addendum: And, of course, the first comment on Chuq’s piece is someone talking out of their ass to disagree with him. Gotta love the internet: everyone’s an expert, except the people who fucking know what they’re talking about.
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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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.
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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