The Angry Drunk

It seems unlikely that any­one read­ing this would be unaware of the news, but Steve Jobs announced his res­ig­na­tion as Apple’s CEO yes­ter­day after­noon. The glar­ing idiocy is already spew­ing forth from the fuck­tards in the pun­dit class, but I’ll save my vit­riol for a later point. If noth­ing else I’m sure me and the two other jack­asses will rant about it on the next Angry Mac Bastards Old Timey Revival Hour.

For the time being, how­ever, I’d just like to thank Mr. Jobs for the amaz­ing work he has done at Apple. On behalf of every­one who just wants their com­put­ers and gad­gets to get the fuck out of their way and let them get shit done; we appre­ci­ate how Apple, under Jobs’ lead­er­ship, has made com­put­ing suck a lit­tle bit less.

Great googly-moogly this week has been one hell of a ride. What with Google announc­ing plans to buy Motorola Mobility, and now with HP announc­ing that they’re exit­ing the PC busi­ness and killing off their WebOS hard­ware. While I can’t say I’ll shed a tear for the PC hard­ware, I am a bit sad­dened by the appar­ent death of WebOS. For one thing, I hon­estly believe that there should be a decent com­peti­tor to iOS in the mar­ket. In my mind WebOS was the best suited to take that role. Secondly, I have always had a soft spot for the erst­while Palm OS. I was an early adopter of Palm hand­helds, and I used a Palm device until the day I bought my first iPhone.

I’m going to have to dig out my old Tungsten T3 and have a drink with it.

Mac OS X 10.7 Lion has finally arrived, bring­ing with it some of the most sig­nif­i­cant changes in the Mac user inter­face since OS X debuted a decade ago. Predictably the response from a large seg­ment of the tech pun­di­toc­racy has been fear, loathing and nerd rage.

Ever since Steve Jobs gave a brief pre­view of Lion at a spe­cial event in October 2010 there have been pun­dits claim­ing that the new inter­face fea­tures rep­re­sented the “iOSi­fi­ca­tion” of the Mac. Harry Marks does a good job of address­ing that claim on his blog so I will refrain from get­ting into that debate here. I do, though, want to address a point that I feel is get­ting missed by those bemoan­ing the changes in Lion.

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