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Entries from February 27th, 2010

Another Slow News Day

February 27th, 2010 · No Comments · General Detritus

Not a heck of a lot going on. Forbes says that Warren Buffet is no Steve Jobs. Thank the maker we have Forbes to keep us abreast of this breaking news. Of course, as you’d expect the article discusses Buffet in terms of Jobs. Besides being very wealthy male bipeds, Steve Jobs and Warren Buffet [...]

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Flash…

February 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment · General Detritus

Most people don’t understand that Steve Jobs’ negative comments on Flash only touch the tip of the ice cream sundae. Flash may be an industry standard, but there have been many industry standards that have fallen to the onslaught of improved technology. Just to cite one example, the automatic transmission completely displaced the whippletree. Whippletrees [...]

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It’s Official

February 23rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Apple TV, Apple Tablet, Market Share, Punditbots and Fundtards, Tablet, The Enterprise, Tim Cook

Yup. Tim Cook made it official today in his keynote address to a bunch of tech punditbots. Some excerpts from Tim’s question and answer session with the n00bs: We don’t ever use the term “market share” at 1 Infinite Loop except when we’re answering questions from idiots. Pull my finger. The Apple TV is a [...]

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Thank Goodness That’s Over

February 21st, 2010 · No Comments · Adobe, Apple Event, Apple Tablet, Browsers, CES, Gadgetry, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Tiger Woods, Windows 7

Tiger Woods apologized. If he’s as good at rehab as he is at golf, he’s going to be fine. The great thing he said was that he used to think the normal rules didn’t apply to him. He thought he was entitled because he had worked so hard all his life. Yeah. Me too. The [...]

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Well, Whaddya Know?

February 17th, 2010 · 15 Comments · App Store, Apple Tablet, Distant Flame Wars, Gadgetry, General Detritus, Master Jobst Fimil, Patent Infringement, Punditbots and Fundtards, iTunes Rivals

Kodak is suing Apple, now. It only stands to reason. Have you noticed that several Apple products have sides at right angles to each other? Kodak invented that. Also, most of Apple’s products have buttons. Kodak was putting buttons on their shit years before Apple even existed. I’m frightened, Auntie Em. … The iPad SDK [...]

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Apple is just fine

February 16th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Apple Tablet, Fake Steve, General Detritus, Master Jobst Fimil

The New York Times has two units arguing over how to price their content for the iPad. The print guys want to charge a dollar a week, while the digital guys want to keep it below five dollars a month. We’ll see how this goes. … The Master is reported to have authorized his biography. [...]

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