Fools of the Year, Junior Varsity Squad
If you’ve not seen the Varsity Squad, you can find them over at Macworld. These are the Fools who will fill in should any Varsity Fools be unable to fulfill their foolish duties.
11. Joe Wilcox
Joe didn’t make the top 10 this year because the Macalope threw out commentary on Steve Jobs’ death. But his
If this means you’ll stop talking about Apple, Joe, you can go away as angrily as you like. We’ll even help you pack!
12. Google’s Eric Schmidt and David Drummond
Schmidt said too many crazy things this year to keep track of. Both he and Google Chief Counsel David Drummond played the “Our competitors can’t innovate so they litigate” card as they were madly spending too much to get their own patents and filing lawsuits through their proxies.
Don’t be evil? How about trying to just not be a bunch of hypocrites?
13. Ed Bott
ED BOTT WOULD LIKE YOU TO KNOW THAT THE MAC DEFENDER TROJAN IS A VERY BIG PROBLEM HERE READ THESE 48 BLOG POSTS HE WROTE ABOUT IT.
14. Demetrius Mandzych
In Byte’s return to the virtual airwaves, Mandzych wrote one of the worst pieces about Apple the Macalope’s ever read. And that’s saying something. Byte retracted the piece. Too bad they can’t retract it from our brains.
15. Consumer Reports
Ugh, these guys.
So, after Apple fixes the antenna problem in the iPhone 4S, it still doesn’t win their top spot because it doesn’t have 3D.
They also suddenly recognized that tablets might get hot when some people noticed the new iPad feels warm, although they never tested any other tablets for heat before that and many of “competing” tablets run hotter.
The idea that people might be noticing their iPads are warm because they’re actually using them does not occur to them.
16. Jolie O’Dell
O’Dell wrote an epically bad piece about how Apple’s brand is unravelling because Tim Cook’s shirt was untucked. You could not make up “analysis” this bad.
17. ZDNet
For so many reasons but mostly for publishing the Great Debate which the Macalope thinks started this year but is so horrible he can’t bring himself go back through them to look.
And poor Paul Thurrott didn’t even make the list! But, with Windows 8 on the way and SURE to clobber Apple, there’s hope for him this year. C’mon Paul, we know you can do it!
Although I agree that Consumer Reports’s articles and commentary on Apple products leave something to be desired, on the whole they continue to contain valuable data on the majority of products they cover.
This one is especially fun. I hope you’re able to find a pair that matches your horns.
http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/04/apple-facebook-project-glass/