February 6th, 2012, by The Angry Drunk 
Lance Ulanoff for Mashable, linksterbaiting for all he’s worth: In case you haven’t noticed, Apple’s iPad’s second birthday came and went without the introduction of the eagerly anticipated third generation of the landmark tablet. There is an iPad 3 in the works. Everyone knows it and numerous leaks all but prove it. We even have some ideas about the specs; a faster A6 processor and a high-rez retina display with edge-to-edge screen coverage. It may also be thinner and lighter or perhaps there will be multiple versions, including a 7-inch iPad. Still, for all we think we know, Apple was not ready to tell us anything about it during the Super Bowl. Here’s a more distressing fact. It has been more than a year since Apple released significant new hardware. Obviously, I’m aware of the iPhone 4S, which launched just a day before Jobs died. It’s a wonderful phone, and who doesn’t love Siri (some, too much)? But it’s essentially an iPhone 4 update and not a wholly new gadget. facepalm
January 25th, 2012, by The Angry Drunk
Craig Grannell: I find the argument that there has to be — or even that there will be — one dominant player in the mobile market without foundation. If we look back through the history of technology, and even examine the present, the PC/Mac market was an aberration. You don’t have people arguing that only one company will become dominant in TVs, cars, sound systems, and so on. 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.
January 16th, 2012, by The Angry Drunk
Alex Brooks: The site I want to read doesn’t churn out the same news and rumours that thousands of other sites have, the site I want to read doesn’t post fanatical rumours from idiotic sources. To make matters worse this churn effect often comes with a form of chinese whispers, led mainly by eccentric, traffic seeking asshole bloggers who are unable to distinguish fact and fiction, unable to pick up the phone to a public relations team to check a detail or more unbelievably spend the time to produce something thoughtful. 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
January 10th, 2012, by The Angry Drunk
Craig Grannell: But we forget. Multitouch is obvious. Pinch-zoom is obvious. Slide-to-unlock is obvious. The manner in which Apple designed its iPhone, its iPad, and even iOS itself? Obvious. Then why didn’t anyone else do this stuff first? Why did it take Apple’s iPhone to kickstart a smartphone and tablet revolution? If the slew of cloners out there all argue Apple didn’t really invent anything new, why didn’t they have iPhone– and iPad-like devices in the market before Apple? Why did Google’s Android rather rapidly shift from being a BlackBerry to an iPhone if the iPhone was so obvious? 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.
January 5th, 2012, by The Angry Drunk
Fuck.
January 3rd, 2012, by The Angry Drunk
Ok kiddies, I’m back from my two week long ethanol-induced coma — and I figure we’ll get the year started on a positive note. To that end, kudos to Chris Rawson at TUAW for speaking sense in a great deconstruction of Tim Bajarin’s idiotic bit of unicorn fetish porn. The bottom line: Where’s the disruptive product, the wave of the future, the thing that makes us feel like Star Trek’s universe has come 300 years early? If it exists at all, it’s probably deep within Apple’s labs, in prototype form, and a hell of a lot more exciting than anything on Bajarin’s list — or mine. Bingo.
December 23rd, 2011, by The Angry Drunk
Dan Frommer with some very good advice for people who write on the Intartubes. I can’t claim that I always meet these goals with The Angry Drunk, but I sure as shit try.
December 16th, 2011, by The Angry Drunk
Fuck me blind, I’m linking to a ZDNet article. Nonetheless, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes agrees with what all the sane people are saying: The problem with all these Apple TV rumors is that no one can come up with a single compelling reason why Apple should go into the business of making TVs. Sure, it’s easy to pull together technologies like Siri and ARM-based CPUs, then do some hand-waving and come to the conclusion that Apple must be working on TVs but all this ignores the fact that Apple already sells a product that will connect to any TV that happens to have an HDMI connector called the AppleTV. What’s more, that product, even at $99, isn’t exactly setting the world alight. Bingo. That “unicorn and saddle” metaphor seems awfully familiar though.
December 12th, 2011, by The Angry Drunk
LOL.
December 6th, 2011, by The Angry Drunk
Spot on comment by Jim Dalrymple at The Loop: If Apple enters a market, I think it knows the product is different enough from the beginning that others will follow. Apple is not motivated by the same things that drive other companies. Market share and profits are a result of making great products. To do that, you can only have that one singular focus. This isn’t any sort of new concept, but it’s one that far too many magoos in the Apple commentary and analysis game seem utterly incapable of understanding.
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