Apple’s imminent demise has been predicted continuously since about 1977. The reasons have never changed: Proprietary software Vertical integration Failure to license the OS Steve Jobs is an asshole Niche market I just read an article a couple of days ago on BusinessInsider that pretty much rehashed all of that. The great part was that [...]
Entries Tagged as 'App Store'
Can’t Find My Way Home.
July 11th, 2010 · No Comments · Android, App Store, Apple Tablet, Follies of Humanity, General Detritus, Punditbots and Fundtards, iPad, iPhone, iPhone killer
Just read, over on CNet, that Jonny Ive and Steve Jobs are on an official list of the smartest people in the tech business. This is “news.” … Here’s why I don’t subscribe to the Salt Lake Tribune: Their punditbot, here, says: The term “iPhone Killer” is “one of the most overused epithets in the [...]
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A Great Disturbance in the Force
May 10th, 2010 · 6 Comments · App Store, iPad
Tory has noted in a link in his comments, that there may be a disturbance in the force. It seems that Android phones are outselling the iPhone. All the various different models and feature sets from multiple manufacturers running several different versions of Android are outselling the iPhone. This does not give Rip Ragged pause. [...]
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WWDC Sold Out
May 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Adobe, Android, App Store, Apple Event, Death of the computer, General Detritus, Master Jobst Fimil, Punditbots and Fundtards, Tablet, iPad
How can WWDC be sold out, what with Apple being such a bad, bad company lately? All the punditbots in the echosphere are hooting about how Steve Jobs is evil incarnate; he’s violating antitrust laws, shackling developers in the stockyard of C and throwing away the key, destroying the internet, and trying to take over [...]
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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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I’m good, for now
February 3rd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Adobe, App Store, Apple Tablet, Gadgetry, General Detritus, Netbooks, iPhone
GoDaddy.com, which advertises its business using the most refined possible examples of skin, has taken enough of my money to assure me that my domain names are safe for 1095.75 more days. Thank the maker. … Adobe’s CTO has taken to the internet in a poorly written blog entry to announce that he’s not lazy, [...]
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