Full of sound and furry
The Apple tablet will fail!
The Apple tablet can’t possibly be a hit! (Tip o’ the antlers to Chris Jennings via email.) Or, if you read to the end, “Apple may pull it off”! (Why is that part always at the end? The Macalope is so tired of that construction.)
When reviewing products that no one knows anything about, individuals should have to do that Jim Carrey thing where he stuck his head between his legs and moved his butt cheeks like his ass was doing the talking. Because that’s really what we’re talking about here.
At Android.
It’s only a matter of time before Android will dominate the iPhone.
Because “choice” is more important than being able to read your emails.
(Yes, it’s a cheap shot at a bug. The point is that while every technology industry analysis firm will tell you Android will win because it will offer “choice”, they fail to consider that having one thing that works real slick is better than having a choice of 50 devices that work like crap.)
Not that anyone we know does that.
Do not use the phrase “sources have said” unless you can’t get any real sources to say anything.
Link to this week’s Macworld piece.
This week’s Macworld piece looks at histrionics over Fake Steve, iPhone love and Apple board compensation.
Programming note: the Macalope will be off the next two weeks for the holidays.
Link to a special Macworld piece by the Macalope about tablet rumors.
A bonus Macalope on Macworld this week, as the horny one looks at the tablet rumors.
Link to weekly Macworld piece.
This week’s Macworld piece talks about the Gadget of the Year and AT&T’s comments on iPhone use and wonders who Wall Street is to be pointing fingers.
Silly iPhone users!
New incendiary research from consulting firm no one ever heard of before finds iPhone-using strawmen have Stockholm Syndrome (via Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, who finds it “interesting”).
[eye roll]
Link to this week’s Macworld piece about apps and Mac market share.
This week’s piece on Macworld looks at expected growth in the number of iPhone apps (every app is sacred!) and Mac market share numbers.
Open source is not without its problems.
InfoWorld’s Galen Gruman on why open source could kill Android’s chances.
This is precisely why I fear for Android’s future. The open source community is much more likely, based on its history, to screw around with umpteen hundred variations that are piled willy-nilly on top of umpteen OS variants, creating a mess that only a few nerds will want to play with.
Gruman goes on to hail the rumor of Google making its own phone to squash the fracturing of the Android market. But, wait, the Macalope thought “open sauce” — this multitude of hacks and putting all the power in the hands of oh-so-brilliant open-source developers — was what made Android so great.
So confusing! [antler scratch]
Line dancing and silly pundits.
This week’s piece at Macworld covers Microsoft’s dancing fools and fools of other stripes.