January 23rd, 2012, by The Angry Drunk 
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.
January 11th, 2012, by The Angry Drunk
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.
December 19th, 2011, by The Angry Drunk
John Martellaro today regarding the inevitability of Apple producing a 7 inch tablet in response to the Kindle Fire: It’s just plain rare for a company to sit back and excuse itself out of a market and potential earnings. John six days ago regarding the future of the Mac Pro: The Mac Pro will be discontinued. Apple is all into the consumer market, and there’s just no future for this aging, heavy, awkward Macintosh. But that’s not to say the Mac mini can’t gain a lot of CPU oomph. I’m expecting the Mac mini to grow a little and get a lot more powerful. 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.
November 29th, 2011, by The Angry Drunk
My brother in arms Peter Cohen on the push back against telecommuting: I’m perfectly willing to compromise on pay and a cushy workplace if it means I’m able to stay home and work at my pace in my environment. But expect me to work for coolie wages and drive to the office every day? You must be joking. I couldn’t agree more. A few companies ago I spent three years working from home after the local office closed. Those were the three most productive years of my career. In that time we rebuilt a Quality Assurance department from the ground up, including developing new QA and Customer Satisfaction capture, evaluation and reporting systems from whole cloth. My current company, however, refuses to allow telecommuting even though I have a 25 mile one-way commute, I’m the sole person in my office in my department and the rest of my team is on another continent. It’s fucking insane.
November 15th, 2011, by The Angry Drunk
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…
October 27th, 2011, by The Angry Drunk
Haven’t read it. Ain’t gonna read it. Don’t fucking care.
October 5th, 2011, by The Angry Drunk
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.
October 3rd, 2011, by The Angry Drunk
I have one and only one prediction for tomorrow — riots. I predict riots on the streets of Cupertino.
September 14th, 2011, by The Angry Drunk
Now that lazy tech writers can no longer blame Steve Jobs for every Apple decision that they dislike they’re going to have to come up with some alternatives. As a public service I’m going to start tracking what the hacks come up with. So far I’ve seen: - Tim Cook — naturally.
- “Cupertino” — Yes you talentless fucks, the entire city of Cupertino has conspired to prevent you from displaying the calendars list in iCal.
Come on you twats, let’s get creative!
September 6th, 2011, by The Angry Drunk
Change is afoot at The Worlds Largest Technology Tabloid, and it’s making the natives restless. Now, full disclosure (a hilarious phrase when used in the context of TechCrunch), I despise TechCrunch. As much as I’m loath to see people put out of work, I would like nothing more than to see TechCrunch consigned to the dust-bin of history. Here’s the funny thing though. In each of these pathetic whine-fests about how big bad corporate media just doesn’t understand the special snowflake that is TechCrunch we’re implicitly asked to accept one unreasonable argument. We’re asked to accept that — even though Mike Arrington is a demonstrably unethical jackass — the site that he founded is incapable of unethical behavior. I’m sorry kids, that shit won’t fly.
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