February 26th, 2010, by The Angry Drunk We feature the work of Joe Wilcox at Betanews fairly frequently on Ye Olde Angry Mac Bastards podcast, mainly because he’s a raving lunatic, but the festering turd that he published yesterday forced me to take direct action. The headline reads Apple should ban freebees from the iPad App Store and that essentially sums up the article. Joe argues that, in order to distinguish the iPad from the iPod Touch and the iPhone, Apple should set a policy that no free applications can be offered via the iPad App Store. Apple shouldn’t treat iPad like iPhone or iPod touch. The iPad App Store should be stocked full of premium content, meaning no freebees. It’s the right way to help establish iPad as a premium product, as something special like the Macintosh. Unfortunately, Apple has little incentive to take this right approach benefiting its developers (because they make more money), customers (because they get better quality apps) and the iPad brand (because it comes be to viewed as a more premium product).
Ok, excuse me for a second while I go stick my cock in a light socket. I need to reboot my brain. … All right
Continue reading Joe Wilcox: Lunatic
February 24th, 2010, by The Angry Drunk 
Gods’ balls I loves me some Rude Pundit.
February 23rd, 2010, by The Angry Drunk I began working on this article several months ago, but other things took priority and I pretty much forgot about it. The recent bout of blogorrhea over Apple and its DRACONIAN CONROL!! of the App Store prompted me to dust it off. For the record, I am in agreement with those who argue that there are problems with the App Store. Months ago I wrote that I thought the entire process was being mismanaged. On the other hand, I have yet to hear a proposal to “fix” the App Store that I think would actually work. So, since I’m just arrogant enough to think that I can do better, read on to hear my proposal for correcting the issues with the App Store…if you dare. Continue reading Fixing the App Store
February 23rd, 2010, by The Angry Drunk Thank Satan for Kara Swisher. It’s always refreshing to see someone call out the blogosphere for being a bunch of whiny link-baiting blowhards. At this point, the breathless faux-outrage displayed every time Apple demonstrates that they couldn’t give a fuck what the blogtards think is becoming pathetic.
February 19th, 2010, by The Angry Drunk
…simply brilliant.
February 16th, 2010, by The Angry Drunk So, Macworld 2010 has come and gone and now the post-mortem analysis can begin in earnest. Already several parties have weighed in on whether or not Macworld was a “success” this year; so I may as well throw in my two cents. Continue reading Post-Macworld Expo Thoughts
February 10th, 2010, by The Angry Drunk Ok, this is the one and (hopefully) only post that I’m going to make regarding Google Buzz. Google Buzz will succeed if, and only if, it can steal a large majority of mainstream users from Twitter/Facebook. Note that, by “mainstream users” I don’t mean New Media Douchebags like Scoble, Arrington, Winer, et al. I mean your parents, the barflies at my pub, and the vapid tarts in the local sorority. No amount of whiz-bang technology, or “mind-share,” or the adoption of so-called influentials will mean fuck-all unless Google can engage the masses. My money is that they can’t. That said, in the interests of seeing how this all pans out, my profile is http://www.google.com/profiles/dlines13.
February 10th, 2010, by The Angry Drunk
Hidey Ho kids. In a little more than 12 hours I’ll be hopping on a plain to San Francisco to attend the 2010 Macworld Conference and Expo. If you’re there, and want to meet up, drop me a line. Probably the easiest way of contacting me will be to direct message me on Twitter (Angry_Drunk). But an email will work too.
February 5th, 2010, by The Angry Drunk
You may have noticed a certain lack of Angry Drunkenness for the last several hours. The bottom line is that a combination of my database corrupting for no obvious reason and an unknown issue preventing me from accessing my webhost to restore from a backup left the site in fucksville. Things look ok for now, but the last two posts were lost. I restored them from a redundant backup, but the link to Disqus was broken. Hopefully that can be fixed eventually.
February 5th, 2010, by The Angry Drunk Add Mike Monteiro to the list of people who actually understand the iPad. The money quote: The people don’t want “tablet computers” with Ubuntu and OpenID (worst name ever for a product attempting broad acceptance). They could honestly give a shit whether it’s a closed or open system. And, let’s be really honest, they probably care as much about DRM as they do about baseball players juicing; by which I mean not very much at all. They want things to work most of the time, and be easy to fix when they don’t. And if the process by which it happens is “magic” they are totally cool with that. They want the thing in the movies. This is a concept that’s been banging around in my head for a while now. Ask most geeks if, given the opportunity, they would want a device like the PADD from Star Trek. Hell, ask them if they would want the whole Star Trek computing experience (“Computer, download all available pornography with the keywords, ‘asian,’ ‘big titties’ and ‘lesbian’”). I think most would say yes. But, when confronted with what well may be the genesis of that model, they run
Continue reading Mike Monteiro Fucking Gets It
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