January 12th, 2010 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 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 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 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 they’d have the time to bring their software up to date.
any variant of the iPhone OS, let alone the equally mythical 4.0 version. Seriously Erica, with prognosticatory powers like that, you should give up iPhone development and just play the fucking lottery.
January 9th, 2010 Once again, Bruce Schneier shows the way on the topic of real security. People have to realize that the only way that terrorists “win” is if we live in fear.
January 7th, 2010 Following the brouhaha over the future of the Macworld Conference and Expo is interesting to me, because I am essentially an outsider here. When the Angry Mac Bastards Of course, as others sans Apple the trade show and conference aspects of Macworld have the potential to bring value. If that value is insufficient to bring in enough vendors and conference attendees then the blame will fall entirely on IDG.
January 7th, 2010 this pointless exercisenay must,
You know what else is fun you mooks? Unicorns. And hookers. Fuck it Apple, where is my hooker on a unicorn?!?
January 6th, 2010 For the love of Satan, is it reallythis article
January 4th, 2010 Here’s another quick bit to remind people that nothing that Scoble says is of any particular worth. If you read any Scooby at all, then you know that he is obsessed with pointless lists. This one though is perfect as an example of the fact that Scoble’s opinion is essentially worthless. In the article Robert states that he has a database of 11,000 tweets that he has favorited since June 2009. Let that number bake into your noggin for a bit. Eleven thousand tweets favorited, not just merely seen by his account. That implies that Robert must have put at least some minimal thought into the content. Now let’s do some math. By my calculations, there were 214 days from beginning of June 2009 until the end of December. If we assume that Scoble monitored Twitter every single one of those 214 days then that gives us 51.4 tweets favorited per day. If we then assume that Robert maintains a twenty-four hour a day vigil, favoriting tweets like some sort of New Media Douchebag machine, then that works out to 2.14 tweets favorited per hour. I keep stressing the “favorited” part of the equation, because it’s important to remember
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January 4th, 2010 While I was in the midst of my latest attempt to prove that a man can be powered by ethanol alone, Betanews ran an utterly retarded opinion piece by Joe Wilcox titled: The world doesn’t need an Apple tablet, or any other. There is much that is fundamentally wrong with Joe’s piece, but I don’t want to talk about that. Fortunately I don’t have to talk about Joe’s errors because the tech punditards sallied forth en masse In a precocious bit of blogorrhea titled: Robert springs to the defense of the tablet platform. Sadly, he also demonstrates that what Robert Scoble understands about technology could be written in twenty-four point font on the back of a postage stamp; with room to spare. Robert’s attempt to defend the maiden honor or the tablet takes the form of a litany of successful tablet computing devices that have already succeeded in the market. Items he refers to include: - A touch-screen Point of Sale terminal
- The touch-screen interface of his “Oh aren’t I so much better than you people” 2010 Prius
- The touch-screen interface of a gas pump (ironic given the above example)
- Some touch-screen shit in a Chinese taxi cab
Anyone else notice the pattern here? Robert has conflated a touch-screen interface with tablet form-factor computing. Here’s a clue Scooby: Lots of devices utilize a touch-screen. Some have been successful, some not so much, but merely possessing a touch-screen does not make a device a “tablet computer” you fucking ignoramus. Seriously, go back to hawking cameras. Hell, some of them now even have touch-screen interfaces. Your vast experience with tablet computing will serve you well.
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