Another Macworld has come and gone. More correctly, the first Macworld | iWorld has come and gone and now it’s time to sit back, reflect, and process our feelings.
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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
It seems the “Apple HDTV” has reached the point in the lifecycle of an idiotic Apple product rumor where the blogtards really go off the rails and begin to spout “specifications” for the unicorn du jour. First we had the grandpappy of this misbegotten idea, Gene Munster, spouting off at some conference that he knew the price of the unicorn. Next some lackwit analyst declared that he knew what sizes the unicorn would come in. Unfortunately this stage of the rumor cycle is unavoidable. It’s also one of the most infuriating stages; mainly because of the mind-fuckingly stupid shit that these magoos come up with. Which leads us to today’s unfortunately titled post from John Martellaro at the Mac Observer titled The Operational Details of the Apple HDTV. Continue reading Saddling the Unicorn 
Yesterday Google posted an article on their blog with the wonderfully Orwellian title Greater choice for wireless access point owners. Addressing the persistent concerns over Google’s practice of gathering data on publicly accessible WiFi routers in order to bolster their location database Google has proposed a solution. Of course this being Google it’s an opt-out solution that 99% of the consumers purchasing a router will never know about. Worse yet, the “solution” is positively insulting to those who do know about it:
That’s right, in order to protect the privacy of our personal networks Google wants us to modify the network name to conform to their arbitrary standards. I think that tonight I’ll be changing my network’s SSID to “Fuck you Google you arrogant assholes”. 
In his latest piece, Apps Are the New Channels Gruber ponders the idea of standalone apps replacing television channels as a distribution model. 
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:
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
And so it goes. I don’t have any deeply personal stories of how Steve affected my life. I didn’t know the man other than through his work — and I’m sure that Steve lived out his life blissfully unaware of my existence. And that’s how it should be. What I did share with Steve was a vision. It’s the vision that lies at the heart of every Apple product that Steve had a hand in — that technology should serve to empower people to do and create the things they love. That vision is what drew me to my first Macintosh computer and it ultimately secured me as a life-long Apple customer. I try, every day to incorporate that vision into the things I do. For that vision, and for the drive to carry it out Steve Jobs will always have my thanks and respect. – Created on my iPad Continue reading Steve Jobs 1955 — 2011 
I hate to pick on Lex Friedman over at Macworld as he’s generally a smart guy, but in his opinion piece on the recent Netflix changes he misses the point in a way that is all too common. Continue reading It’s the Content Providers, Silly. 
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 forkbombr.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 
I was debating joining my mythical compatriot the Macalope and adding my own frothing rage over this vilely offensive pile of syphilitic jackal dung when I made the mistake of meandering down into the comments. I was not surprised to find the usual collection of “hur dur Apple is so evil” bullshit, but what really caught my eye was a magnificent example of the art of utter what-the-fuckery by some jackass with the handle of “joblot”. Continue reading What the Literal Fuck (Steve Jobs Resignation Edition) |
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