February 10th, 2011, by The Angry Drunk 
Yesterday I speculated that it would take less than 24 hours for this speculation from Apple pundit extraordinaire John Gruber to be accepted as gospel truth by the tech press. Apparently I need to re-calibrate my already abysmal expectation of the media; because no more than 3 hours after making that prediction I walked into my local bar and was inundated with panicky fear that the next iPad was being delayed until Fall. Keep in mind that I’m talking about normal people here, people who think that “Gruber” is the bad guy from Die Hard. Continue reading The Incredibly Credulous Tech Press
January 6th, 2011, by The Angry Drunk 
Thursday Apple officially launched the Mac App Store and immediately every Mac in existence ceased to function. Ok, that’s not true, although some of the more chicken-little-esque prognostications from the punditards prior to the launch would have suggested that would have been the case. Actually, response has been mostly positive. After I have a chance to play with the App Store more I might write up a more comprehensive analysis. For now, though, I want to explore some thoughts that occurred to me after seeing some of the responses to the App Store. Continue reading The Death of Upgrade Pricing [Mac App Store]
December 2nd, 2010, by The Angry Drunk
Over at The Mac Observer Ted Landau wrote up some well reasoned, and mercifully non-hyperbolic, speculation about the future of the Mac under the headline The Point-and-Shoot Mac. Fortunately for me (and unfortunately for those who like seeing me go into a frothing rage) the article is clearly presented as speculation, well thought out, sensible, and ultimately wrong. Continue reading Point and Shoot Mac? Not So Fast
November 16th, 2010, by The Angry Drunk 
In the run-up to today’s massive Apple announcement (it’s just the Beatles in iTunes) I noticed the following pair of headlines on AppleInsider’s homepage. Continue reading Why Most of the Tech Media Should Be Launched Into the Sun
October 29th, 2010, by The Angry Drunk 
And, of course, he doesn’t fucking get it. Addressing his idiotic complaints by the numbers: Continue reading Dave Winer Buys a MacBook Air
October 21st, 2010, by The Angry Drunk 
Wednesday Apple held a special event where they unveiled an update to the iLife suite of applications, a redesigned MacBook Air and offered a sneak peak at the next major version of the Mac OS: Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. Additionally, Apple discussed the state of the Mac, and where it fits within their overall business strategy. I’m not going to go into any great depth of analysis here. Greater minds than mine (and quite a few lesser) will dissect every syllable uttered and pixel displayed during the event. I do, however, want to offer a few observations on the event and the announcements that were made. Continue reading Back to Mac Event Musings
October 12th, 2010, by The Angry Drunk
There is an interim phase in the lifecycle of an invented Apple scandal. Once the hacks in the blogosphere begin amplifying and distorting the original bullshit story, a (usually) heretofore unheard of company surfaces with “hard” data that somehow purports to reinforce the “Apple has a design flaw” meme. In this case the company is SquareTrade. And what’s SquareTrade’s stake in this? They sell accidental damage warranties — surprise, surprise. The key part, though, of phase 1.5 is that it allows publications that knew better than to report on the bullshit unsourced allegations that began the cycle to get in on the action and maintain a veneer of respectability. Continue reading Phase 1.5 of The “Apple Scandal” Lifecycle Begins
October 7th, 2010, by The Angry Drunk
Today I had the privilege of witnessing something rarely glimpsed in the wild. An event so rare it’s akin to seeing a snow leopard (the cat, not the operating system) perform a back-flip. For the first time in my career I was present at the exact moment that a New Media Douchebag attempted to start another lame Apple “scandal.” Continue reading One for the Bucket-List, I Witness A “Scandal” Being Born
September 9th, 2010, by The Angry Drunk 
Whatever.
September 2nd, 2010, by The Angry Drunk
Like I wrote yesterday, I’m not particularly interested in doing any sort of roundup of the announcements from Apple’s yearly Music Event held yesterday, September 1st. However, there are a few things that popped out at me that I’d like to explore. Initially I was going to do some claim chowdah analysis and break down exactly how wrong Engadget was about the supposed iTV, but there really isn’t anything new to be said there. Anyway, Joel Topolsky is already spinning the announcements to say that Apple is so totally going to make those changes, but things changed at the last minute. Whatever douche, keep spinning. What is interesting to me, and touches on the idiocy around the AppleTV, is the way that iOS was almost fetishized by the tech press during the announcement. Continue reading The iOS Fetish
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