True Names

March 8th, 2012

So, based on the Apple press corps’ reac­tion to OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion and the iPad we can draw a con­clu­sion: Many tech jour­nal­ists — much like mud-dwelling Dark Ages peas­ants — think that names have mys­ti­cal powers.

Noted

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.

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.

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.

The “No Comments” Circle-Jerk

January 5th, 2012

It’s once again the sea­son when the hip­ster­atti regale us poor plebes with the glo­ries of not allow­ing com­ments on their pre­cious blogs.

I get it, not allow­ing com­ments make you feel all hip and edgy — but for the love of sweet Minotaur Jesus stop crow­ing about it like you just dis­cov­ered the fuck­ing secret of N.I.M.H.

Consistency

December 19th, 2011

John Martellaro today regard­ing the inevitabil­ity of Apple pro­duc­ing a 7 inch tablet in response to the Kindle Fire:

John six days ago regard­ing the future of the Mac Pro:

Is it too much to ask for a lit­tle consistency?

Note: This is essen­tially a repost of the com­ment I made at the four mis­an­thropes of the apoc­a­lypse in response to a much more thor­ough drub­bing of this foolishness.

Legitimatin’

November 15th, 2011

I’m some­what amused by the mem­bers of the chat­ter­ing class who’ve insisted from the out­set that Apple’s pri­mary, if not only, moti­va­tion for iTunes Match was extract $25 from peo­ple to “legit­imize” their ill-gotten music col­lec­tions who have now gone on to write reviews of iTunes Match show­cas­ing their vast col­lec­tion of non-iTunes Store media. So what you’re say­ing is…

My Thoughts on the Steve Jobs Biography

October 27th, 2011

Haven’t read it.

Ain’t gonna read it.

Don’t fuck­ing care.

The Topolsky Spin

October 5th, 2011

I wrote this on Twitter a lit­tle while ago, but I’m putting it here for posterity:

The Topolsky Spin

– The act of claim­ing that your shitty rumor­mon­gery was cor­rect, even in the face of real­ity prov­ing you false. The most com­mon vari­ant is to claim that Apple (it’s always about Apple) was totally going to announce the prod­uct that you pre­dicted, but they changed plans at the last minute.

Predictimacatin’

October 3rd, 2011

I have one and only one pre­dic­tion for tomor­row — riots. I pre­dict riots on the streets of Cupertino.

 
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