Don Tennant, King of Shit

Every once in a while a par­tic­u­larly worth­less turd of an arti­cle pushes itself past the gen­eral morass of crap that passes for tech “jour­nal­ism” these days to befoul our col­lec­tive con­scious­ness. Recently an arti­cle by Don Tennant from ITBusinessEdge had the dis­tinc­tion of join­ing those ranks. In the arti­cle, Why I Regret Buying an iPhone, Tennant makes the case against the iPhone.

I can already sense my read­ers tun­ing out. And why not? Articles bash­ing the iPhone/iPad/iWhatever are a dime a dozen these days. Hell, even august bod­ies like CNET resort to that age-old tac­tic when they need a lit­tle link lov­ing. But stay with me gen­tle reader, this smear of feces is not the usual link-bait Apple bash­ing. This is a turd of a whole dif­fer­ent stench. No, in this piece of fuck­wit­tery Don lays out the moral argu­ment against Apple.

Wait, I sense your puz­zle­ment. A moral argu­ment against Apple. Is this going to be another free­tard screed against DRM or the App Store? Nope, Don couldn’t even pick a posi­tion as quasi-defensible as those. Instead Don takes Apple to task for enslav­ing the peo­ple of China. Dig it:

I have an iPhone, but if I had it to do over again, I would never have bought one.

It works just fine; I haven’t expe­ri­enced the prob­lems with AT&T that a lot of iPhone own­ers com­plain about, and I like a lot of the apps. But at the time I bought it, I wasn’t fully aware of Apple’s bla­tant, unapolo­getic con­tempt for its employ­ees, its sup­pli­ers, the media and  its cus­tomers. Now that I’ve been edu­cated, I’m sorry I ever bought one of Steve Jobs’ products.

See, in the fan­tasy world that Don lives in, it’s not the rep­re­hen­si­ble Chinese gov­ern­ment who’s to blame for child labor, or Reuters employ­ees being roughed up, or the poor fucker at Foxconn who offed him­self. No, it can’t be the excesses off a gov­ern­ment who has taken the worst aspects of total­i­tar­i­an­ism and ram­pant cap­i­tal­ism that’s to blame. It must be Apple.

Of course it never occurs to Don Tennant, this self impor­tant cunt, that every other fuck­ing con­sumer elec­tron­ics com­pany uti­lizes these same sup­pli­ers. No, his moral out­rage and fop­pish hair are reserved solely for that min­ion of Satan him­self, Steve Jobs.

It’s peo­ple like this who make me wish I could kick a fuck­wit in the prunes via the inter­net. At the very least there should be a black­list set up so that worth­less morons like Don Tennant can never use a Chinese built item again.

Congratulations Don Tennant, you are offi­cially the biggest mound of shit in the tank.