A special weekend Macalope because some things are too stupid to wait to skewer.
Weekend ruined
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Category: Silly Pundits
What a riot
Obtuse reviews and RIM’s financial troubles in this week’s Macworld column.
This week’s Macworld column looks at obtuse reviews and RIM’s financial troubles.
For you Insiders, we’ve started tagging the new content in the Saturday column with the alliterativeriffic “Saturday Special” heading. We’ll also try to put it at the top unless it’s a logical follow-up to another piece.
The art of the lazy dodge
As practiced by PCWorld’s Tony Bradley.
As I see it, if you make the hit list for Gruber or the Macalope, you can call it a job well done and go grab a beer.
Of trolls and straw men
Lodsys and Mac Defender and straw men in this week’s Macworld column.
This week’s Macworld column looks at Lodsys and the two attacks against Mac users: one the Mac Defender Trojan and the other all the obnoxious straw men.
Yes, but no
Partial truths in this week’s Macworld column.
This week’s Macworld column looks at partial truths about App Store exclusivity, Mac security and the thickness of the white iPhone.
A tale of two pundits
Two pundits — one bad and one turned good — in this week’s Macworld column.
This week’s Macworld column looks at two pundits: one jerktastic and one who turned his life around!
A river in Egypt
Denial from Dell, Gizmodo and eWeek in this week’s Macworld column.
This week’s Macworld column looks at denial. Dell’s denial that tablets are affecting PC sales, Gizmodo’s denial of sanity in the face of the iPhone tracking scandal and an eWeek silly pundit’s denial that the PlayBook should be compared to the iPad.
Terrible mistakes
This week’s column looks at RIM, Computerworld’s rumor fetish and why the iPhone’s market share doesn’t tell the whole story.
This week’s Macworld column looks at mistakes by RIM, Computerworld and silly pundits who worship at the church of market share.
Zombie arguments
Zombie arguments that won’t die! Plus, more fun with RIM and Google, in this week’s Macworld column.
This week’s Macworld column tries to double tap the zombie “Android versus iOS is Windows versus the Mac all over again!” argument. RIM continues be be funny and guess who gives Google a pass.
An apology
The Macalope mischaracterized John Dowdell’s reasoning and apologizes.
Adobe’s John Dowdell posted a response to the Macalope’s Fools of the Year piece and it appears the horny one mischaracterized Dowdell’s rationale for his comment about Adobe being more ethical than Apple.
Dowdell says that was not, as the Macalope stated, about Flash but about Steve Jobs not publicly reporting his health condition in 2009.
So, the Macalope sincerely apologizes for that.
Of course, he doesn’t at all agree with his judgement that that somehow makes Apple unethical, but it’s certainly a more reasonable argument than the business decision not to allow Flash on iOS. As the Macalope has stated previously, he doesn’t think the public or even the individual Apple investor has a right to know the health conditions of any Apple executive. That’s what the board is for.
Two small corrections for Dowdell:
- The Macalope is pseudonymous, not anonymous.
- It’s “Macworld” not “MacWorld”.
As a side note about Dowdell’s claim that he couldn’t comment, the Macalope has had his own trouble with Macworld.com’s commenting system. There have been a number of times when the system’s initially said he was logged in but then wouldn’t let him comment. So he’s inclined to think Dowdell’s troubles are probably legitimate rather than from laziness or stupidity.