The Angry Drunk

Satan’s balls I hate TechCrunch; they truly are the ulti­mate bot­tom feeder of the tech indus­try. One of my favorite tricks that Mike Arrington and his car­ni­val of imbe­ciles like to pull is the “high­light yet another App Store denial” rou­tine. Today’s exam­ple from Roi Carthy, though, is a doozy. The head­line reads: Tawkon Measures The Radiation Spewing From Your iPhone. No Wonder Apple Doesn’t Approve It.

The idiocy is summed in the first paragraph.

Here we go again … Apple App Store Fail No. 5102928. A few weeks ago stealth Israeli startup Tawkon gave me a sneak-peak devel­oper build of what I believe is the most impor­tant app on my iPhone. What does it do? It ana­lyzes the cel­lu­lar radi­a­tion your iPhone emits at any given moment, at any given loca­tion, whether in standby mode, or within a call.

First of all, I’m declar­ing a fuck­ing fatwa against the use of the word “fail.” You’re (pre­sum­ably) not a gig­gling school-girl, stop fuck­ing writ­ing like one. But more to the point, let’s be clear about what this appli­ca­tion does. This piece of crap mea­sures the sig­nal strength of the iPhone’s cel­lu­lar radio, then does some alchemy to deter­mine the

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