The Angry Drunk

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.

Continue read­ing The Answer Is in the Name

Normally I’d post some­thing like this as a link list item, but since it’s behind the Macworld Insider¹ pay wall I’ll link it here.

In the post the Macalope tears into three shit-bags seek­ing to either cap­i­tal­ize on Steve Jobs’ death or to antag­o­nize peo­ple, pre­sum­ably for page-views: David Srere — shit­ti­est “brand expert” ever, Hamiton Nolan — from the tabloid shit-rag Gawker and everyone’s favorite fun­da­men­tal­ist ass­hole Fred Phelps.

Writeth the horned one:

It is a sad fact of life that there are invet­er­ate jerks who will take the death of a man (how­ever flawed) like Steve Jobs, and try to use it for per­sonal gain, or just as a self-righteous and hate-filled attack on the val­ues of those who cared about him.

Well said my myth­i­cal brother-from-another-species, well said. And with that we have the last I’m going to say — in this forum — about the shit smears trolling a man’s death. Fuck the lot of ‘em.

Continue read­ing The Macalope on the Jackasses Using Steve Jobs Death for Profit & Trolling

I’m hardly the first per­son to weigh in on this, but I thought that I’d point out this delight­ful lit­tle story from Stephen Hackett at fork​bombr​.net. The long and short of it is that Stephen called out douchemon­ger extra­or­di­naire Seth Weintraub, along with his pathetic lit­tle ass-minion Mark Gurman over their hor­rif­i­cally taste­less cov­er­age of Steve Jobs’ health. Seth, in a move that is sure to make Mike Arrington proud, reg­is­tered fork­bombr.com and pro­ceeded to redi­rect it to a vari­ety of sites. As of the the writ­ing of this post it cur­rently points to a page dis­play­ing the mes­sage “do onto others”.

Continue read­ing On the Infinite Shittiness of 9to5 Mac