October 28th, 2009, by The Angry Drunk Erick Schonfeld takes one deep and works the ballsack today with this: Google Should Make Apple Beg For Maps Navigation. Choice quote: When Google announced what is clearly the best car navigation application on any mobile today, it didn’t just take a swipe at GPS navigation companies such as Garmin and TomTom. It took a swipe at Apple. Ignoring the breathless proclamation that, since it’s from Google it must be the best thing since unicorn cum, let me just point out that Apple already “took a swipe” at Google when they banned Google Voice, banned Google Latitude and bought a mother-fucking mapping company. As for the retarded notion that Google should make Apple “beg” to use their precious unicorn-tear powered mapping framework, recall that Google doesn’t make dime fucking one directly from Android phone sales. It makes it’s money selling advertisements. As such, I rather imagine that Google will be begging Apple to use their service on one of the fastest growing mobile platforms in the fucking Universe. Seriously, Erick and the rest of the TechCrunch lackwits, stop before your lips become permanently chapped.
September 25th, 2009, by The Angry Drunk
September 22nd, 2009, by The Angry Drunk Someone should call up Michael Arrington and his cadre of scrotum – washers over at TechCrunch and let them know that the “irrational Apple hatred” job is already taken by Rob Enderle, and Rob does a better job of it. Case in point, today’s post from so – called Apple expert M.G. Siegler under the headline “Push Gmail Finally Comes To The iPhone, No Thanks To Apple.” The background to the story is that Google Sync, which is merely Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, now supports Google Mail. Before today, Google Sync could only sync contacts and calendars. Before I go on, take some time and click through to the Google Sync page. Once there, take note of the options in the choose your phone drop – down. Note that, in addition to the iPhone there are a few other options, Blackberry, Nokia and Windows Mobile among them. Now check out the TechCrap story. Brace yourself for the righteous indignation being hurled at Research In Motion, Microsoft and Nokia due to their refusal to support native Google push email. Wait, you say there is no such indignation? You say that the only company the monkey – feltchers at TechCrap bitch
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February 10th, 2009, by The Angry Drunk In the Retarded Zealot Hall of Fame there is none loftier than Paul Thurrott. He has achieved a level of absolute inanity that is unparalleled by any MacMac, freetard or New Media Douchebag. Given that fact, today’s bit of mental vomit comes as little surprise. Microsoft Licenses ActiveSync to Google Why is the company cooperating with a competitor? There you have the headline of today’s diatribe; and there you have the crux of the idiocy. See, like any good zealot, in Paul’s mind Microsoft must be the end all and be all of, well, everything. The mere thought of cooperation is trauma inducing. Paul begins by spending a few sentences making snide comments about “conspiracy-happy Mac fanatics” (pot meet kettle) before making this comment: With Apple gaining usage share in the PC market regularly over the past several years, why is Microsoft propping up this ever-stronger competitor with the crucial Office productivity suite? Oh, I don’t know Paul; maybe because Apple and Microsoft aren’t really competitors.I know that this is a shocking concept to both sides of the OS wars, but it’s true. Apple doesn’t compete with Microsoft. Fuck, every currently shipping Apple Macintosh computer not only
Continue reading Paul Thurrott Opens Mouth, Unbridled Idiocy Pours Forth
October 16th, 2008, by The Angry Drunk Back when the iPhone developers were still getting their whine on regarding the “Fucking NDA” and other Apple crimes against humanity (little known fact, the Geneva Conventions have a section regarding cell phone development) one of the more frequent refrains was “I’ll go develop for Android then.” Because, of course, a giant advertising company would automatically be more “open” (whatever the fuck that means); even though there has yet to be a single shred of evidence provided that the actual manufacturers and carriers will let you modify Android based phones in the slightest. But, hey, it’s Google, they can do no wrong; so they must be better than Apple. Right? Imagine then, the utter shock that I experienced tho discover that Google is putting a application kill-switch into Android. SHOCKED I SAY!!! I can only react to this in one way. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Wait, let me catch my breath… HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I’m going to make a prediction. The carriers are going to lock down your precious GooglePhones tighter than a drum; and your buddies at Google aren’t going to do a damn thing to fight it.
September 24th, 2008, by The Angry Drunk Last night I posted a quick blurb that said: I just want to go on record here that I will go back to using tin cans and fucking string before I use a phone with an OS developed by Google. So mote it be. In the comments for that post Wes asked: What’s your reason for this? Don’t like Google or some other objection? I’d use it if its Mac support was as good as the iPhones and the user experience was as good or better. I don’t really have much else to write about; so I figure I’ll go ahead and answer this on. The bottom line is, no I do not like Google. Why don’t I like Google? Well, the answer to that question is long and complicated; so I’m going to limit my answer to Google in relation to the Android OS. What Google Is: To start out I’d like to take a brief moment to summarize exactly what Google is; since many in the tech industry don’t seem to know. Google is a publicly traded corporation; just like Apple, or everyone’s least favorite tech. company: Microsoft. This means that Google exists solely
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September 3rd, 2008, by The Angry Drunk Like the rest of the nerdosphere I’ve been giving Google’s new browser Chrome a try. For the record, I’m running Chrome on my Windows XP laptop at work; I’m not about to run a VM session just to test it out on the iMac at home. My initial reaction? I think Chrome presents some interesting ideas, but it’s probably not going to be my default XP browser, and almost certainly won’t be my default browser in OS X. Details after the fold. Continue reading Going Chrome
June 12th, 2008, by The Angry Drunk I’ve been following various forum and blog posts regarding the Apple MobileMe announcement; and I see a trend that’s beginning to annoy me. Inevitably, at some point someone will make a comment along the lines of, “I don’t see why anyone would bother with this when there’s Google Mail, Calendar, etc.” Without going into an analysis of the MobileMe service itself (hard to do when it doesn’t exist yet), I am constantly annoyed by this sort of short-sighted thinking. Heaven forbid that Apple, or anyone for that matter, dare to attempt to compete with the mighty Google. I hate to break it to the Googletards, but there is more to the internet and computing that Google. Some of us have compelling reasons for wanting a competing service. Here’s just a single one that is a factor for me. Seamless desktop and remote integration. I’ve been dying for a seamless way to integrate my desktop workflow (iCal, Mail, iLife) with both the web, and with the Windows machines that I have to use at work. And, before I get a slew of comments pointing out how to integrate with Google’s services, I know about them; I even am currently using some
Continue reading Google Ain’t All That
December 26th, 2007, by The Angry Drunk I missed the initial hullabalo surrounding the recent Google Reader fiasco (link goes to the Slashdot discussion). But I may as well add my thoughts. Continue reading Fuck Google
December 12th, 2007, by The Angry Drunk Yes, thwunk. That kids, is the sound of me slamming my head against the keyboard. By the by, ergonomic keyboards are much better on the noggin than standard. And why am I slamming my head into the keyboard you ask. Well it may have something to do with this bit of idiocy from The Apple Blog. The piece purports to be a comparison of Apple’s .Mac service and the various Google offerings, with an attempt to answer the question, “Is Google the next .Mac.” Continue reading Thwunk!!!
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