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: Silly Pundits
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.
Stupidium is an infinite resource
Line dancing and silly pundits.
This week’s piece at Macworld covers Microsoft’s dancing fools and fools of other stripes.
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?
7 herbs and spices
Cooking with Rob Enderle
This week’s Macworld piece takes a big heapin’ helpin’ o’ Rob Enderle, looks in horror at the Microsoft Store opening and what’s missing from Windows 7.
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.
Tease
InfoWorld’s Roger Grimes reopens the old “is it the size of the installed base or is it the technology” argument, writing Macs’ low popularity keeps them safer from hacking and malware.
The Macalope doesn’t have a problem with his piece, really, and pretty much agrees with him.What he was amused by is that this is how InfoWorld teased the piece in its daily email blast:
Macs are safer because nobody likes them
Ahhh, ha-ha! You stay classy, InfoWorld!
Artie MacStrawman is not just a river in Egypt
Cleversimon torches Charlie Brooker’s strawman so the Macalope doesn’t have to, passing the savings on to you. Or something.
Charlie Brooker’s thesis is “I hate Windows, but I hate strawmen Mac evangelists more, so I’m going to marinate in my misery just to stick it to these imaginary fanboys. I’m unhappy and unproductive, and I’m going to stay unhappy and unproductive—that’ll show ‘em.â€
UPDATE: Commenters believe the horny one just doesn’t “get” Brooker and that it’s all a satire and not to be taken literally. It’s obvious that it’s over the top and meant to be funny, but it certainly seems like the basic point is still the same no matter how much patented British sarcasm — that no one in the colonies can is allowed to understand because we’re peasants who only understand the twaddle that comes from the plebian “writers” who have so badly butchered their language — there is.
(That, by the way, is just plain old American sarcasm. Which comes with a side of fries.)
Well, maybe the Macalope’s wrong. But he believes Cleversimon is Canadian. What’s his excuse?
Lies, damned lies and statistics
This week’s Macworld piece sums up the Macalope’s Retrevo survey criticism and looks at a claim made in new Apple ads as well as some of Adrian Kingsley-Hughes’s analysis of the ads.
The anecdotal tempest
This week’s piece on Macworld looks at some silly punditry and asks “How big is this so-called ‘iPhone revolt’ anyway?” And who likes Twitter feeds that tell iPhone complainers to stuff it?! We do!