CrunchPad Dead

November 30th, 2009, by The Angry Drunk
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Golly-gee-willakers, who’da thunk it. A douchebag with no hard­ware devel­op­ment or prod­uct man­age­ment skills couldn’t make his myth­i­cal iTablet killer appear out of uni­corn farts. I’m shed­ding a tiny lit­tle tear.

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Vacation

November 23rd, 2009, by The Angry Drunk
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I’m on vaca­tion from the office this week, so with­out the con­stant bore­dom updates may be a bit more sparse than usual. Deal with it.

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Case in Point

November 20th, 2009, by The Angry Drunk

No sooner do I com­ment on the overly cred­u­lous com­men­tary being offered up by the techno-sphere regard­ing the ChromeOS announce­ment than I notice this wretchedly mis-titled arti­cle over at TechCrunch: “Google Is Keeping Chrome OS Simple. Maybe Too Simple.”

Now, to be fair, this is Erick Schonfeld, and his deep abid­ing love of the Google-cock is well doc­u­mented, so I shouldn’t be sur­prised. But quotes like this really take things to a new level:

Rather than sup­port Android apps and other sorts of apps, there is only one kind of app Google is inter­ested in: the Web app. Chrome OS is all about mak­ing Web apps the only apps you will ever need. Which kind of makes you won­der how long we’ll need Android apps, or iPhone apps for that mat­ter, because you know it is only a mat­ter of time before a phone comes out run­ning on Chrome OS.

Seriously, Chrome web apps are now going to erad­i­cate stand­alone Android or iPhone apps? The same web apps that Steve Jobs pro­posed two years ago and was widely, and rightly derided over? Web apps cer­tainly have their place, but to even sug­gest that a phone run­ning noth­ing

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ChromeOS Reactions

November 20th, 2009, by The Angry Drunk

Yesterday Google unveiled their browser-as-operating-system con­cept, ChromeOS, in greater detail. I’m still pro­cess­ing the infor­ma­tion and I may, or may not, write up my thoughts on the announce­ments later. For the moment though I’m find­ing myself, as is often the case, more inter­ested in the reac­tion of the greater techno-sphere to the announcement.

I’m some­what bemused, although I really shouldn’t be, at the credulity of some of my fel­low trav­el­ers. I don’t doubt that Google is capa­ble of mar­ket­ing ChromeOS. Google cer­tainly has the money on hand to force them­selves into what­ever mar­ket they so choose, and the adop­tion of Android shows that they cer­tainly have the capa­bil­ity to pro­duce a ser­vice­able oper­at­ing sys­tem (even if it does largely lever­age Linux).

I also don’t hold with the seg­ment that dis­misses ChromeOS solely on grounds that it only runs web appli­ca­tions. I per­son­ally think that, at the moment, web apps are inher­ently infe­rior to a well-built desk­top appli­ca­tion, and I don’t see that sit­u­a­tion chang­ing in the near future. But if decades of Windows dom­i­nance has shown, your aver­age con­sumer is per­fectly will­ing to use an infe­rior prod­uct as long as it is cheap and con­ve­nient enough.

What I do find

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Irony

November 19th, 2009, by The Angry Drunk
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What’s the real threat to mar­riage in Texas? The State Constitution. Stupid rubes.

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Fraidy Cats

November 18th, 2009, by The Angry Drunk
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Brilliant idea from John Gruber.

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Morons

November 16th, 2009, by The Angry Drunk
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PC World dou­bles down on the stu­pid. Fuck you Ian Paul you cheap twat.

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Ride of the Entitletards

November 16th, 2009, by The Angry Drunk

So, the dip-shits at Psystar had their day in court, and the court punched them square in the junk. You can read all about the legal deci­sion at Groklaw. But I don’t want to write about the deci­sion itself. Suffice it to say that I agree with the Groklaw analy­sis. No, I want to com­ment on the absolutely exe­crable com­men­tary on the deci­sion from the retards at PC World.

As always with this sort of puke, the stu­pid starts right away with the headline:

Apple Wins Hollow Victory In Psystar Ruling

Really, a “hol­low vic­tory?” I rather imag­ine that Apple doesn’t see the absolute destruc­tion of Psystar as a “hol­low vic­tory.” Nor do I imag­ine that they’re any­thing but orgas­mic to have a court uphold their argu­ments regard­ing the enforce­abil­ity of the OS X End User License Agreement (EULA) as it per­tains to third-party resellers. So, over­all not so “hol­low” after all.

But the stu­pid don’t stop there. The first para­graph re-introduces us to an old friend:

A fed­eral judge has ruled in Apple’s favor in its law­suit against Mac-clone maker Psystar. Prevailing in the court bat­tle seems like it should be a good thing, but what Apple

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Musing on an iTablet

November 11th, 2009, by The Angry Drunk

Jason Snell at Macworld opines on the pos­si­bil­ity of Apple sell­ing read­ing con­tent on the myth­i­cal forth­com­ing Apple tablet. Overall, I pretty much agree Jason’s assess­ment, but the whole dis­cus­sion raises another ques­tion in my mind. I’m per­plexed by the fact that the bulk of the tech media seems to have latched onto the idea that this myth­i­cal Apple tablet is going to be about e-reading in gen­eral, or that it will be tar­geted specif­i­cally to com­pete with the Amazon Kindle and Barnes and Noble Nook.

The Kindle and Nook, and the other minor play­ers in the e-reader space run for around two to three hun­dred dol­lars per unit, or approx­i­mately the cost of an iPhone or iPod Touch. Does any­one really see Apple releas­ing a new, larger, e-reading focused device at that price point? I sure as hell don’t. Additionally, as Jason points out, there are already sev­eral very well done e-reading solu­tions for the Mac OS (desk­top and Touch ver­sions) that have access to a wealth of con­tent, includ­ing the full libraries acces­si­ble to the Kindle and Nook.

My wild-ass sus­pi­cion is that, assum­ing the Apple tablet is actu­ally real, e-reading will be a small com­po­nent of

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Vultures

November 9th, 2009, by The Angry Drunk
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For all I bag on TechCrunch for their ram­pant douchebag­gery, I have to nut up and give some praise to this piece by Paul Carr expos­ing “cit­i­zen jour­nal­ism” for the self-indulgent mirror-gazing that it really is. Good on ya’ Paul. Of course, the com­ments are the worst dreck that human­ity has to offer, which sort of proves the point.

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