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.
Put down that iPhone!
Link to weekly Macworld piece.
Category: iPhone
Shocking
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]
By the numbers
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.
On Android and differentiation
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]
You can't argue with that
Joe Wilcox fumbles analysis, melts down.
It’s delightful watching Joe Wilcox’s meltdown after being called out for ignoring the huge effect of Apple’s accounting methods in his piece claiming Apple was not more profitable that Nokia. His protestations to the contrary notwithstanding, there really is no way to read Wilcox’s initial post and think he knew about Apple’s accounting.
This comment by Joe is particularly amusing:
I’m not sweating the John Gruber attack, although his hit-and-run tactics without comments for defense is disturbing. He has one voice for which there is no rebuttal.
Shorter Joe Wilcox: Gruber must be wrong because he doesn’t allow comments on his blog.
Q.E.D.
Personally, the Macalope finds it highly disturbing that Joe’s blog — which forces you to sign up for an account before you can leave a comment — doesn’t provide permalinks for individual comments. WHAT ARE YOU HIDING, JOE?
Mobile market madness!
This week’s Macworld piece welcomes Windows Mobile 6.5, wonders how fast Windows 7 will get adopted and worries that the iPhone is doomed!
OK, not really on that last one.
From the annals of misunderstanding
InfoWorld: Adobe circumvents Apple to bring Flash apps to iPhone
Are these Flash apps? Well, they’re apps developed in Flash, but at runtime they’re native iPhone apps.
The piece seems to display this as a great strength of Adobe in doing an end run around Apple. But from where the Macalope’s sitting it seems like a weakness. What they’ve done is go to a lot of trouble to get some kind of answer for their developers who must have been kicking and screaming to get their apps on the iPhone. And the solution they’ve given them seems less than optimal.
From Apple’s perspective, they still control the gateway – the App Store – and still don’t have to deal with a bloated virtual machine sucking everyone’s batteries and crashing all the time. Now these apps will have to compete on their own against apps developed in Xcode. To you, the Flash developer, the Macalope says “Good luck!”
Who's the boss?
This week’s Macworld piece looks at tablet rumors and speculation and the Tweetie 2.0 dust-up.
More sensationalism
This time over at CNet:
Is the iPhone hurting AT&T’s brand?
Riiiiight. It’s the iPhone that’s hurting AT&T. All that subscription money is piled up so high they can’t get out the door to improve their infrastructure.
Videodrome
This week’s Macworld piece looks at the Windows 7 party video and for bonus nails on the blackboard, Michael Arrington interviewing Steve Ballmer. Also, AT&T will cure your AT&T problems if you just send them more money!