This week’s Macworld column cautions pundits and analysts to lift with the knees, not the back, when carrying all that water for Apple’s competitors.
Trying too hard
Don’t throw your back out, pundits and analysts!
Author: The Macalope
Cherished delusions
Pundit delusions and the iPad mini.
This week’s Macworld column looks at the cherished delusions of John Dvorak, Joe Wilcox and our iPad mini obsession.
Personality disorder
Tech personalities. What are you gonna do with them?
The Winotaur, John Dvorak and RIM all get the horns in this week’s Macworld column.
Slippery Surface
The Surface is here and the iPad is DOOOOOMED!
This week’s Macworld column looks at the reaction to the Microsoft Surface and how DOOOOMED the iPad is. (Totally doomed.)
Reactionaries
Ice Cream Sandwich vs. iOS 6, false history of the iPod and Microsoft’s Monday announcement.
This week’s Macworld column false equivalencies between Ice Cream Sandwich and iOS 6, a flight of fancy about the iPad and whatever Microsoft might have up its sleeve for Monday.
Executive suite
A Dell executive opines on the iPad, Eric Schmidt’s six months are up and how will Steve Jobs be remembered?
This week’s Macworld column looks at crazy comments by Dell and Google executives and then the Macalope ponders Steve Jobs’ legacy.
Serial jerkery
Silly expectations, Gizmodo and Mike Daisey get the horns.
This week’s Macworld column takes on some unreasonable expectations for Tim Cook’s AllThingsD interview, some tastelessness from Gizmodo and Mike Daisey, hopefully for the last time.
A kinder, gentler Macalope
Security, wedgies and the Apple television.
This week’s Macworld column features an intervention followed by the Macalope making nice with a silly pundit, but not before handing out a much-deserved goring with the help of a friend.
Cause and effect
Some people just don’t get cause and effect.
This week’s Macworld column looks at 4-inch iPhone rumors, Google phones and Ultrabooks… again.
True originals
Ultrabooks, jerky publications that find a nut and the iPad mini.
This week’s Macworld column looks at Ultrabooks, jerky publications that sometimes get it right and the iPad mini rumors.