I rarely get a chance to write about media outlets that don’t piss me off, but if you’ve listened to the Angry Mac Bastards podcast much, you’ll know that I’m a big fan of the reporting that Jim Dalrymple is doing over at The Loop. Consequently, I was happy to read the update regarding recent changes that Jim posted today. In particular, it’s great to hear that fellow AMB host Peter Cohen is joining up as Executive Editor. Congratulations to all involved, and thanks for running an Apple news/opinion site that doesn’t make we want to stab a hobo.
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 Adam Pash, Lifehacker editor, I have a message for you. I highly suggest that you give up on trying to report on technology issues and go back to posting pretty pictures of people’s desks and fellating David Allen. At least you’re good at that. Someone should call up Michael Arrington and his cadre of scrotum–washers over at TechCrunch and let them know that the “irrational Apple hatred” job is already taken by Rob Enderle, and Rob does a better job of it. Case in point, today’s post from so–called Apple expert M.G. Siegler under the headline “Push Gmail Finally Comes To The iPhone, No Thanks To Apple.” The background to the story is that Google Sync, which is merely Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, now supports Google Mail. Before today, Google Sync could only sync contacts and calendars. Before I go on, take some time and click through to the Google Sync page. Once there, take note of the options in the choose your phone drop–down. Note that, in addition to the iPhone there are a few other options, Blackberry, Nokia and Windows Mobile among them. Now check out the TechCrap story. Brace yourself for the righteous indignation being hurled at Research In Motion, Microsoft and Nokia due to their refusal to support native Google push email. Wait, you say there is no such indignation? You say that the only company the monkey–feltchers at TechCrap bitch at is Apple. Well, surprise, sur–fucking–prise. Seriously, Continue reading TechCrunch Jizzes Over an Apple/Google Story, Again The reasons for publishing inaccuracy–laden tripe on the web are as varied as the lack–wits who write it. Some have a political agenda to push. Some are in it for the cash. Some just get a massive erection from pissing off rational people. But amongst these miscreants are the select few who have a need, a compulsion if you will, to pack as much idiocy, faulty logic and inaccuracy into one article as they possibly can. Among these select few, the grand master is Daniel Eran Dilger and his Cavalcade of Sock–Puppets. I normally don’t seek out Dilger’s particular brand of fuckwittery, nor do I willingly read the drooling effluvia from AppleInsider (one of his usual haunts), but the people have spoken, so I am now compelled to beat him up for the mental diarrhea that he posted today at AppleInsider under the headline “Why Apple is betting on HTML 5: a web history.” My usual modus operandi with this sort of article is to first address the central thesis of the piece, but, for the life of me I can’t figure exactly what in the seven hells Daniel is hoping to accomplish with this article. If there If anyone is still waiting for wondrous tales of my Irish adventure, I’m sorry to disabuse you of that notion. Three days of jet–lag, training and meetings didn’t leave me much inspired to do any adventuring. So, for the terminally oblivious, the reason for the lack of activity is that I am currently in grey and dismal Ireland doing the same job I would normally be doing, but with a 150% cost of living modifier and no appreciable sleep. At any rate, the jet–lag is unlikely to dissipate any time soon. So, until my return, things gonna be quiet around here. Deal with it Susie. Simply brilliant commentary utterly shredding the “Apple is evil” meme. Even the fucking comments are intelligent. Yet again the Rude Pundit nails it. I debated doing a proper tear–down of this piece of self–indulgent tripe from the usually a bit more astute than this Merlin Mann. It certainly has all of the tropes that send me into paroxysms of rage: Apple as cult, the implication that Snow Leopard is just a “service pack,” the inability to understand Apple’s marketing of Snow Leopard, douchebaggy faux–conversations between the author and an anthropomorphized Apple. Really, it’s a New Media Douchefestival of delights. But I just can’t bring myself to do it. Instead I’ll offer just a few thoughts. I get it Merlin, you’re an idiot who rushed into an OS upgrade because, like every other dip–shit in the tech punditocracy, you are obsessed with the new shiny and, like a fucking raccoon, you can’t resist grabbing for it. I get that, again like the rest of the punditocracy you aren’t capable of listening when Apple said clearly that Snow Leopard was not going to be about new features (except for Exchange). I get that it’s easier to blame Apple instead of your beloved developers who couldn’t be arsed to upgrade their software in time for Snow Leopard, even though Apple gave developers an unprecedented |
 
 
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