Full of sound and furry
Link to Macworld piece about the Macalope’s iPhone 4 shutout.
In this week’s Macworld piece, the Macalope tells his heartbreaking tale of getting shut out for an iPhone on launch day (first world problems hurt too, you know!). “Google fanbois” think the company can do aaaaanything and are netbooks on the way out?
They are sometimes hysterical.
They are sometimes hysterical.
Issues.
His diatribe of last year challenging a recuperating Steve Jobs to return to work full time:
What has Apple done truly innovative in your absence? Not much… Of course, you don’t want to admit it. But, c’mon, Steve. Let’s be men discussing it.
His challenge to John Gruber five days ago to allow comments on Daring Fireball:
So I close with this challenge: Be a man, John Gruber, and allow comments at Daring Fireball.
Why the ridiculous “manly” posturing?
And then, after John responds, Joe turns around and removes comments from his blog.
The Macalope obviously enjoys a bit of posturing himself but — at least from where he’s sitting — the shtick only works when a) it’s funny and b) it’s coming from the floppy drive mouth of a mythical character.
Dan Lyons and more in this week’s Macworld piece.
In this week’s Macworld piece, the horny one wonders what Dan Lyons is talking about, gets a chuckle out of Fortune and a heavy sigh out of a lame top ten list.
Enderle, Snell and Gruber get the horns in this week’s Macworld piece.
It’s a weird Macalope Weekly as the horny one takes on Rob Enderle, Jason Snell and John Gruber (for different reasons). That’s gotta be a first.
This week’s Macworld piece looks at iPad and iPhone competitors through the eyes of a hungry Macalope!
Link to Macworld piece on Dan Lyons and some silly punditry.
This week’s Macworld piece looks at Dan Lyons switching to Android, some silly punditry and wonders who really cares about Flash.
So seemingly say Arnold Kim and ZDNet.
Arnold Kim approvingly links to this piece on ZDNet which claims the real story is that the police failed to identify Jason Chen as a journalist.
Well, maybe that’s just because they’ve read Gizmodo before.
Ha-ha! Ahhh… the Macalope kids Gizmodo because they have no journalistic integrity.
OK, look, the horny one is not a lawyer — neither is Kim (he’s actually a doctor) or ZDNet’s Sam Diaz — but he’ll weigh in on this under the legal precedent of “they started it” (see the case of George “Spanky” McFarland vs. Tommy “Butch” Bond, 1932).
Perhaps the police didn’t note that Chen was a journalist… because it doesn’t matter. Diaz raises this possibility but still goes on for a thousand words about how journalists need protections. Journalists do not need protections from breaking the law. No one does.
The Macalope had previously stipulated the point that it seems unnecessary for the police to have busted Chen’s door down. But now we know that the other half of this equation — the goofballs who were shopping the phone around the more sleazy elements of the supposedly irreproachable journalistic world — ran from police and attempted to hide the evidence of their malfeasance. The police had reasonable cause to suspect there was something going on here that the parties involved with had a desire to cover up and may have felt Chen would do the same.
The brown and furry one knows any number of real journalists and when he described the situation to one who was previously unfamiliar with it, she listened patiently and then openly gasped when he told her Gizmodo paid for the phone. Real journalists to do not pay their sources for information, let alone traffic with them in misappropriated property. The Macalope does not understand the knee-jerk effort by more respectable elements of the journalist community to come to the aid of Gizmodo in this case.
Again: not a lawyer. This is just the opinion of this mythical beast, which is worth little more than the pixels it’s displayed with.
Link to Macworld piece about, yep, Flash.
This week’s Macworld piece is all Flash all the time.
Because the Gizmodo court documents didn’t get released until yesterday afternoon. What’s a mythical beast to do?
Brian Lam blames the victim.
Gizmodo email to Jobs: “We have nothing to lose.”
Right now, we have nothing to lose. The thing is, Apple PR has been cold to us lately. It affected my ability to do my job right at iPad launch. So we had to go outside and find our stories like this one, very aggressively.
Blaming the victim. Classy.
And read the Wired piece, too. Amazing story. That, of course, broke after the Macalope’s deadline for this week’s Macworld piece. Sigh.