This ain’t gonna win me any friends, but I honestly would like an answer to the question. I constantly hear iPhone developers bemoaning that they are “stuck in a 99 cent ghetto.” So, my question is: what precisely do you want Apple to do about that? Because any answer that I can think of amounts to price fixing.
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 I’m going to junk punch the next whiny dolt I hear saying that “Apple killed the Google Voice app for ‘no good reason.’” You may not like it, but limiting competition is a perfectly good reason. Stop confusing your own wants with moral certitude. There has always been a hint of mental illness at Palm. From their habit of breaking third party application compatibility with each hardware release, to treating expandable storage in such an incomprehensible way that I don’t think that anyone ever really figured out how it worked, to the bizarre chain of buy–outs, mergers and acquisitions that make Palm’s ownership history look more complicated than the Habsburg family tree; it’s always been apparent to outside observers that there has to be something in the water over at Palm HQ. But none of Palm’s previous shenanigans holds a candle to the current whacky antics that they are displaying over the Palm Pre and its Media Sync functionality. For the uninformed: when Palm first announced the Pre, one of its highly promoted features was Media Sync. Which provided the ability for the Pre to appear as an iPod with Apple’s iTunes software. Before the first units shipped there was wild speculation regarding this feature. Was Palm working with Apple to enable this? If not, how would Apple respond? As it turns out, Apple wasn’t working with Palm on the Media Sync feature. What was happening was that Palm was utilizing a very simple I always laugh when some five or ten year transplant to Arizona starts running his or her mouth about how much worse the weather is “back home” and how they are all gods among men for their abilities to navigate in snow, sleet and hail. I laugh because I know that they will undoubtedly be one of the first to get startled like a rabbit and run their car into an embankment at the first sign of that rare miracle that we natives like to call, “rain.” In honor of how far we came, and in light of how far we have yet to go. Here is a recording of Billy Bragg’s “The Space Race is Over.”
You know, no one writes decent songs about punching people in the head any more. At least the office in my mind.
Behold! The glory that is the Angry Mac Bastards thong! Nah, just joshing you, but I am enjoying a frosty pint of ale from the wonderful Angry Mac Bastards beer stein. You know you fucking want one. Kudos to Melissa Findley (@Mercuralis on Twitter) for the design. It truly rocks. While dicking around with the feeds earlier, I decided that I haven’t made enough pointless and annoying changes lately. So, we’re moving to Feedburner. The new feed links are below. Update your feed reader, or don’t, I don’t care. It’s been brought to my attention that some people aren’t getting any content in the RSS/ATOM feeds. Oddly, this only seems to affect certain feed readers. So far I can verify that Google Reader, Newsgator Online and Feed Demon exhibit the problem. Fever and Safari’s built in RSS reader are working fine. At this point I’m stumped. If anyone has any suggestions, let me know in the comments. update: it seems the time–honored troubleshooting technique of poking at crap until something changes may have borne fruit. I’m now getting the proper display of content in every feed reader I have access to. If you’re still seeing just headlines on all the posts shoot me an email, or not, I don’t actually care. |
 
 
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