I Am Shamed

October 30th, 2009, by The Angry Drunk

It’s hor­rif­i­cally embar­rass­ing to admit I missed one of the bet­ter idiot-quotes from Erick Schonfeld’s lat­est Google rim-job, and didn’t notice it until I saw it in a Prince McDildo article:

Google sup­pos­edly didn’t need to cre­ate its own phone, because it could sim­ply cre­ate soft­ware for the iPhone. And, in fact, some of the best apps on the iPhone — Mail, Maps, YouTube, Search — were devel­oped by Google.

The lack of oxy­gen from Google’s sch­long block­ing Erick’s air­way must have con­fused him. None of those appli­ca­tions were devel­oped by Google. One isn’t even a real application.

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  • mattstocum

    I can under­stand think­ing Maps and YouTube were writ­ten by Google. But Mail? Because Mail can talk to Gmail, that means Google wrote it? And now every­thing that can search any­thing is writ­ten by Google?

  • http://www.theangrydrunk.com The Angry Drunk

    Bear in mind that this is the same lack-wit that jumped on the band­wagon that Google chang­ing it’s logo to an elec­tro­mag­net was some sort of back-door slight against Israel, or Palestine, or someone…he wasn’t com­pletely clear.

  • mattstocum

    Oh wow, I didn’t real­ize it was the same guy. Somehow he came up in a drunken con­ver­sa­tion the other night. The con­sen­sus was a) he’s a wing-nut, and b) we needed some­thing bet­ter to talk about while drinking.

  • JDT

    Can’t blame you for miss­ing any of the won­der­ful quotes… one would pretty much have to quote the entire arti­cle as it is so full of stu­pid­ity. Saying that “Search” is an “appli­ca­tion” made by Google on the iPhone is like a scream­ing “Black-Jack!” in the mid­dle of the a poker game. I don’t know what is more pathetic, that some­one writes garbage like this and con­sid­ers them­selves a “tech writer” or that some­one pays them to write it. The level of igno­rance approaches Rob Enderle’s in his last arti­cle about Microsoft launch­ing a rev­o­lu­tion and Apple’s answer to that being a mouse.

  • http://mattstocum.com Matt Stocum

    I can under­stand think­ing Maps and YouTube were writ­ten by Google. But Mail? Because Mail can talk to Gmail, that means Google wrote it? And now every­thing that can search any­thing is writ­ten by Google?

  • http://www.theangrydrunk.com The Angry Drunk

    Bear in mind that this is the same lack-wit that jumped on the band­wagon that Google chang­ing it’s logo to an elec­tro­mag­net was some sort of back-door slight against Israel, or Palestine, or someone…he wasn’t com­pletely clear.

  • http://mattstocum.com Matt Stocum

    Oh wow, I didn’t real­ize it was the same guy. Somehow he came up in a drunken con­ver­sa­tion the other night. The con­sen­sus was a) he’s a wing-nut, and b) we needed some­thing bet­ter to talk about while drinking.

  • JDT

    Can’t blame you for miss­ing any of the won­der­ful quotes… one would pretty much have to quote the entire arti­cle as it is so full of stu­pid­ity. Saying that “Search” is an “appli­ca­tion” made by Google on the iPhone is like a scream­ing “Black-Jack!” in the mid­dle of the a poker game. I don’t know what is more pathetic, that some­one writes garbage like this and con­sid­ers them­selves a “tech writer” or that some­one pays them to write it. The level of igno­rance approaches Rob Enderle’s in his last arti­cle about Microsoft launch­ing a rev­o­lu­tion and Apple’s answer to that being a mouse.

  • mattstocum

    I can under­stand think­ing Maps and YouTube were writ­ten by Google. But Mail? Because Mail can talk to Gmail, that means Google wrote it? And now every­thing that can search any­thing is writ­ten by Google?

  • http://www.theangrydrunk.com The Angry Drunk

    Bear in mind that this is the same lack-wit that jumped on the band­wagon that Google chang­ing it’s logo to an elec­tro­mag­net was some sort of back-door slight against Israel, or Palestine, or someone…he wasn’t com­pletely clear.

  • mattstocum

    Oh wow, I didn’t real­ize it was the same guy. Somehow he came up in a drunken con­ver­sa­tion the other night. The con­sen­sus was a) he’s a wing-nut, and b) we needed some­thing bet­ter to talk about while drinking.

  • JDT

    Can’t blame you for miss­ing any of the won­der­ful quotes… one would pretty much have to quote the entire arti­cle as it is so full of stu­pid­ity. Saying that “Search” is an “appli­ca­tion” made by Google on the iPhone is like a scream­ing “Black-Jack!” in the mid­dle of the a poker game. I don’t know what is more pathetic, that some­one writes garbage like this and con­sid­ers them­selves a “tech writer” or that some­one pays them to write it. The level of igno­rance approaches Rob Enderle’s in his last arti­cle about Microsoft launch­ing a rev­o­lu­tion and Apple’s answer to that being a mouse.