January 12th, 2010, by The Angry Drunk Ok kids, I hate to interrupt the mutual masturbation of the blogoratti regarding Google’s announcement that they might, maybe stop assisting the Chinese government in their censorship activities after purportedly being targeted by Chinese hackers attempting to access information about dissidents. Really, it kills me having to be a downer on all of this felating of Google, but when TechCrunch of all places gets it right…well, that’s just sad. Naturally, Scoble disagrees.
January 12th, 2010, by The Angry Drunk As if to taunt me, TUAW just ran another article from prognosticator extraordinaire Erica Sadun that boggles the mind: Enough already with the draconian NDAs, Apple. This time, instead of consulting her crystal ball about the mythical iTablet, Erica takes time out of her busy schedule of huffing glue to complain about the NDA that Apple has slapped on on the iPhone OS 4.0 SDK. You know, the SDK that doesn’t fucking exist yet. Enough of this crap. Speculation about a product that Apple almost certainly will introduce in the next month is one thing, but this blatant link-baiting is ridiculous.
January 12th, 2010, by The Angry Drunk Supposedly Erica Sadun is some sort of high potentate of the iPhone development community, which I guess explains why publications like The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) go to her for commentary. But, given the fact that she has the logical skills of a young-earth creationist, they should really stop. Case in point: an article posted today on TUAW titled App Store approvals and the tablet: why it matters. That’s right kiddies, it’s another article about unicorns. Erica starts out with an observation: When iTunes Connect returned after its Christmas break, developers noticed that things had changed quite a bit on the App Store approval front. Applications that had formerly taken ten to fourteen days to work through review were now getting processed in a couple of days or less. The upshot? Happier developers, better bug releases for users, and a healthier App Store ecosystem. Good so far, this is factual and draws a conclusion that follows logically from the premise. The rail-jumping begins immediately after: There’s another consequence of the new, speedier approvals: the tablet. With the device due to ship March/April (late Q1, early Q2), and no announced 4.0 SDK, developers were left wondering how
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