The Angry Drunk

A rare bit of sane com­men­tary amongst the cur­rent unicorn-mongery about the sup­posed “Apple HDTV” from Craig Grannell.

Another point that the techno-utopians are miss­ing is this: What about all the con­tent that doesn’t fit into the iTunes model of distribution?

• Local pro­gram­ming
• Live sports that don’t hap­pen to be MLB, NHL or NFL
• Live news/info pro­gram­ming such as CNN/MSNBC/Fox
• Vintage/Rare/Cult con­tent that the stu­dios will likely never pro­vide in a non-disc format
• Console gam­ing (sorry the iPad is not a replace­ment for the PS3/Xbox/Wii)

All of this con­tent will require players/set-top-boxes that elim­i­nate the “sim­plic­ity” that every­one spouts as the rai­son d’être for the Apple HDTV in the first place. When you look at the con­tent that the major­ity of peo­ple con­sume, and not just the habits of the small sam­ple of hip­ster techno-utopians yap­ping about this, it’s clear that this mar­ket is far more com­pli­cated than the blo­go­ratti seems to believe.

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Shawn King for Stupid Apple Rumors:

Wouldn’t it be bet­ter if if your favorite site were more accu­rate? If they pub­lished fewer rumors from fewer sus­pect sources? If we could trust what they say more? Stupid Apple Rumors’ goal isn’t to have rumors go away — we like rumors as much as the next per­son — but to have the rumors, and the sites who pub­lish, waste less of our valu­able time with ridicu­lous sto­ries from ridicu­lous sources. Our goal is to track, doc­u­ment and report on the rumors and the sites that pub­lish them in the hopes that those sites will take notice and make a con­certed effort to get bet­ter at their jobs — thereby pro­vid­ing even greater value to you their read­er­ships and advertisers.

Honestly, the only thing that sur­prises me about this analy­sis is that the shit-bag rumor­mon­gers did as well as they did.

Anyone who has lis­tened to the lat­est episode of the Angry Mac Bastards pod­cast should be aware that I was some­what annoyed to say the least at the gen­eral reac­tion of the tech press to the iPhone 4S announce­ment. John Kheit, writ­ing for The Mac Observer, echoes my feel­ings — with a bit less vol­ume, but far more panache:

Ultimately the tech press is bunch of cow­ardly posers that lick their col­lec­tive fin­gers to see where the pub­lic breeze is blow­ing and end up jab­bing it directly up into the tech­no­rati hip­sters’ col­lec­tive pos­te­rior as a gauge of merit.

Preach it!

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