The Angry Drunk

It’s no stun­ning rev­e­la­tion to reg­u­lar read­ers that I think that there is an appalling lack of crit­i­cal think­ing skills amongst the so-called “experts” who make up the tech press. With very few excep­tions the default process for the tech media seems to be to run sto­ries with­out the slight­est hint of inves­ti­ga­tion, ver­i­fi­ca­tion, or even inde­pen­dent thought. Case in point, a story that began mak­ing the rounds last week about Apple exert­ing it’s DRACONIAN CONTROL to remove all WiFi “snif­fer” appli­ca­tions. A typ­i­cally crap­tac­u­lar exam­ple of the “report­ing” sur­round­ing the issue can be found in this arti­cle at the Cult of Mac blog. To quote:

Apple sent a note to the devel­oper of WiFi-Where on Wednesday say­ing their app has been removed because it uses “a pri­vate frame­work to access wifi information.”

What this pri­vate frame­work is, nei­ther Apple nor the devel­oper explain.

The prob­lem is the sec­ond sen­tence. Apple, of course isn’t explain­ing what the “pri­vate frame­work” is, because Apple hasn’t offered any fuck­ing com­ment on this sit­u­a­tion. Nor should they. Apple rejects hun­dreds of appli­ca­tions a week. They owe expla­na­tions to the devel­op­ers, but not to ran­dom blog­gers and jour­nal­ists. More impor­tantly though,

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