Macworld | iWorld 2012

January 31st, 2012

Another Macworld has come and gone. More cor­rectly, the first Macworld | iWorld has come and gone and now it’s time to sit back, reflect, and process our feelings.


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Link: Nvidia Latest to Claim Android and iOS Will Be a Repeat of the PC and Mac Market

January 25th, 2012

Craig Grannell:

I’ve made this argu­ment before myself. Trying to use the his­tory of the PC/Mac mar­ket as a model for any other mar­ket is stu­pid and doomed to failure.

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January 23rd, 2012

Daniel Steinberg on the hideous and dra­con­ian iBooks Author EULA:

My book.

via Daring Fireball

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Fuck Me — Actual Journalism?

January 23rd, 2012

Everyone and their cousin has linked to or blogged about this arti­cle in The New York Times about the rise of for­eign man­u­fac­tur­ing but I think it’s still wor­thy of point­ing out. It’s a rare treat to read an arti­cle on this topic that doesn’t appear to be writ­ten by com­plete fuck­tards. By all means, use Apple as an exam­ple of the issue — but don’t pre­tend that some hyper­bolic screed in ZDNet blam­ing all ills on Apple or some jack­ass online peti­tion is going to change shit.

But real change takes work, and work­ing is hard.

The Answer Is in the Name

January 19th, 2012

Today Apple held their much-anticipated edu­ca­tion announce­ment at the Guggenheim museum in New York. As you are prob­a­bly aware, Apple announced three new prod­ucts dur­ing the event: iBooks 2, iTunesU.app and iBooks Author. I’m not going to go into any deep analy­sis of the event. It’s been so long since I was even vaguely involved with the edu­ca­tion mar­ket that I really can’t muster up any deep insight into Apple’s ini­tia­tives. As usual, though, the reac­tion to Apple’s announce­ments by the blo­go­ratti does pro­vide a rich and fer­tile ground of annoy­ing stu­pid­ity which we can harvest.

One emerg­ing theme annoys me in par­tic­u­lar: the idea that Apple is exert­ing Draconian con­trol over how you can sell con­tent pro­duced with iBooks Author.


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Drink With the Bastards

January 18th, 2012

I men­tioned before that the Angry Mac Bastards would be per­form­ing live at Macworld | iWorld again this year (details here). In addi­tion I’m happy to announce the inau­gural Angry Mac Bastards Drinkathon. If your going to be in town on Thursday, January 26th we’d love to get you shit-faced.

Link: Reflecting on Change

January 16th, 2012

Alex Brooks:

It’s nice to see yet another tech blog­ger see the light. It really doesn’t take much to rise above the morass of rumor-mongery and link bait. All it takes is a lit­tle integrity.

via The Loop

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Really?

January 11th, 2012

Really BGR? Are you shit-bags so des­per­ate for fuck­ing table scraps that you’re going to actu­ally run with Jeremy Horwitz’s bull­shit claims that he’s seen an iPad 3? Congratulations fuck­wits, that swish­ing you hear is the sound of what tiny bit of cred­i­bil­ity you had left flush­ing down the toilet.

Boy Genius indeed.

Link: We Take for Granted What Has Already Been Invented. (The Impact of the Original iPhone.)

January 10th, 2012

Craig Grannell:

Exactly. Sometimes we for­get how much the world of con­sumer tech­nol­ogy has changed over a very short period of time — and many peo­ple con­ve­niently for­get exactly how much of that change was dri­ven by Apple.

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AMB at Macworld | iWorld

January 6th, 2012

For the third year run­ning Angry Mac Bastards will be doing our schtick live at Macworld | iWorld. If you’re com­ing to the show, stop by and say hello. We promise to be only mildly abusive.

 
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