Tag Archive | "Punditry"
Apple and Super Bowl commercials
Did you catch that Apple ad during last night’s Super Bowl? Yeah, me either. But Lance Ulanoff of Mashable thinks they should have run one. For Apple, though, there is a bigger concern here. By not appearing at the Super Bowl, Apple is letting its competition frame the discussion. Founder and former CEO Steve Jobs, [...]
Continue reading...From the “Forbes puts this drivel on its website?” department
Monday, October 24, 2011
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By Luis Estrada: Following the iPhone 4S announcement, Forbes had a remarkably vapid article disparaging Apple’s next-gen iPhone up on its website. Due on October 14, this remarkably sucky, shoddy, sloppy, slapped together disaster of a phone will undoubtedly receive huge sales, endless attention, and a fair amount of praise from Apple loyalists. But if [...]
Continue reading...Robert Scoble apologizes
Friday, October 7, 2011
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By David Goldman: Before Apple’s big iPhone media event this past Tuesday, Robert Scoble made a number of big predictions. First, he said Facebook would finally release its long-awaited iPad app. What’s more, Scoble said the level of Facebook’s cooperation with Apple was expansive and would literally shock people. Second, and much more tantalizing, Scoble [...]
Continue reading...Architecture snob John Pastier lambasts Apple’s proposed “spaceship” style campus
Thursday, August 18, 2011
When Steve Jobs presented Apple’s plans to construct a new campus anchored by a spaceship style building, you could tell that Jobs was as passionate about the building itself as he is about Apple’s actual products. “There’s not a single straight piece of glass in this building,” Jobs said about the proposed 4-story high spherical [...]
Continue reading...MG Siegler of TechCrunch and Adrian Chen of Gawker engage in online fight over “boring” tech news
Sunday, July 31, 2011
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Tech beefs are particularly funny because they’re unabashedly lame. The term keyboard warrior can be chalked up as a misnomer with the latter half of the word being more of an ironic statement than anything else. So move over “Twitter beef”, we have some Gawker/TechCrunch beef in the house.
Continue reading...Mashable’s attention-seeking and conspiratorial headline about Apple’s Data Center and Google Earth
Thursday, June 2, 2011
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As Apple’s massive data center in Maiden, North Carolina ramps up for operations, the huge structure is now visible in its current state via Google Maps and Google Earth. Of course, the images available via Google aren’t entirely new since video flybys of the property, perhaps unauthorized, have been floating around for a while now. [...]
Continue reading...Macalope’s look at the 10 biggest Apple fools of the past year
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
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April Fools Day on the blogosphere always brings with it an assortment of jokes and spoofs that range from the annoyingly stupid to cleverly brilliant. Of course, there are always a never ending supply of moronic tech pundits who spew nonsense so consistently that you’d think every one of their posts is an April Fools Day goof. [...]
Continue reading...Microsoft research and strategy officer Craig Mundie not sure the tablet market has staying power
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
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It’s an interesting and counter-intuitive strategy. Reference a popular product that your company simply can’t compete with and question the staying power of said product. It’s an easy strategy, no doubt, and is a heck of a lot easier than actually delivering a compelling product yourself. And that’s apparently the mindset over in Redmond these [...]
Continue reading...From the “How did this get published?” department
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
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How this stuff gets printed is beyond me. It’s utter trash, really, and the epitome of lazy journalism. Writing for PC Mag, Will Greenwald comes up with 5 reasons not to buy the iPad 2. Without question, Greenwald devoted zero time to thinking about the iPad 2, as evidenced by his haphazardly assembled list that [...]
Continue reading...Rob Enderle jumps the shark
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
It’s official folks, Rob Enderle has jumped the shark – which speaks volumes if you’ve actually read some of Enderle’s clumsy writing before.
Continue reading...Sign #421 that people will write anything just to reference Apple
Monday, February 28, 2011
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Wayne Rash clumsily writes that the timing of Apple’s upcoming March 2 iPad announcement was plotted with the intention of spoiling the new Motorola Xoom tablet. The announcement by Verizon Wireless that the Xoom will ship on Feb. 24 was followed almost immediately by an invitation by Apple to a press announcement in San Francisco [...]
Continue reading...John Dvorak advises Microsoft to use Android.. say what?!
Monday, February 7, 2011
John, John, John – it’s hard to know where to even start. While Apple fans are used to the nonsensical ramblings of John Dvorak, his odd points of view and strange assertions exist far beyond the realm of Apple. In his most recent article, Dvorak argues that lukewarm sales of Windows Phone 7 drive home the fact [...]
Continue reading...Must be cool in Hell this time of year
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
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The Street, home to dubious analysts like Jim Cramer and Scott Moritz recently put out their list compiling the top 10 most innovative companies of 2010. So who topped the charts – Apple? Google? Some obscure technology company with an ultra-cool product? Negative on all counts. Why the most innovative company in 2010, according to [...]
Continue reading...John Gruber destroys Dan Lyons
Friday, July 23, 2010
A brilliant piece by John Gruber of Daring Fireball utterly demoloshing the fool that is Dan Lyons. Now as opposed to other pundits like Rob Enderle and Scott Mortiz, Lyons actually has some intellect at his disposal. The thing is, Lyons has a personal axe to grind with Apple, a fact which often results in [...]
Continue reading...A year full of Apple pessimists and illogical tomfoolery
Monday, July 5, 2010
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From Rob Enderle to Joe Wilcox, there’s unfortunately no shortage of misinformed and ill-reasoned tech pundits out on the web. Back in April, Macworld published some of the more asinine predictions and observations made about Apple in the 12 months preceding the iPad launch. It’s an entertaining read, and all your favorite pundits make the [...]
Continue reading...The Street’s Scott Moritz desperately looks for reasons to hate the iPhone
Monday, July 5, 2010
In the ongoing race to determine which tech pundit lacks the most brain cells, Rob Enderle and Scott Moritz are not surprisingly neck and neck. But seeing as we consistently give Enderle a tough time, we thought we’d give him a break and focus on the latest drivel spewing from the pen of the Moritz. [...]
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Monday, February 6, 2012
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