Nxxx pointed out this post in comments last night. It’s called “Apple’s cash hoard: Begging for a ‘windfall tax’?”
Have we ever talked about Matt Asay before? I’d go look, but it isn’t worth it.
I read the whole article. Why? Because I can, that’s why. Nxxx is right. It did make my blood boil for a […]

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There. That ought to piss off a few fanbois.
Daring Fireball links a post by Michael Tsai that picks apart a post by Mike Ash in which Apple is pilloried for its policies vis a vis the SDK and web apps and all things iPhone. The screwy thing is Tsai ends up making the same points […]

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I’ve been reading around the innertubes that although Steve Jobs has been cleared of wrongdoing by the Feds in the stock backdating “scandal,” his problems aren’t entirely over because there are civil lawsuits pending.
The story, here, blathers on about pending civil litigation against Pixar, Nancy Heinen, Phil Schiller, Carl Perkins, Zager and Evans, Jimmy The […]

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The unthinkable happened today. Wifey-poo dropped her 8-Gig iPhone. It fell just so that the power button on top is depressed and the case is bent to hold it down. All it does now is cycle on long enough for the Apple logo to appear and then off again.
She did the only sensible thing. She […]

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John C. Dvorak paid a visit to this planet for long enough to notice that the iPhone won’t properly replace a desktop computer.
No. Really. John C. Dvorak doesn’t think you can get along with just an iPhone. [Glady Knight and the Pips, If I Were Your Woman: One of the hottest tracks ever. EVER.] I […]

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Dan Lyons is much more enjoyable to read when he’s pretending to be the CEO of a Cupertino computer company. When he does market analysis, really, he’s seriously lame.
My snailmail copy of Forbes showed up in the mailbox today. Dan Lyons’ big doofus grin sits on top of a column that predicts the iPhone […]

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