Oh, just thought I'd post that. I'm not making it up, he definitively proved he was a tool by writing the worst review of the HTC EVO 4G. So I've decided to write the worst review of MG Siegler, having no real knowledge about him...which is how he wrote his piece about the EVO: without any fucking clue about technology.
I think you'll agree, it's a great example of an apple fanboy, acting as they all do--like rabid, flea-bitten stray dogs, who would gladly lick peanut butter off of Steve Jobs' cachetic nutsack if he would only put some there.
In his latest overt exclamation to squelch the free rights of humanity Steve Jobs has stated that there will be no porn on the iPhone, and if you want porn, you should go to Android. Whether you get porn on your cellphone or not is really your own choice, but it really should be your own choice, not the choice of some bald guy wearing a black turtleneck. (BTW I hope he has a lot of those turtlenecks or washes them regularly...I've never seen him wear anything else.)
While it's true that most people using the iPhone won't download porn (given that they had to trade in their testicles to buy an iPhone, facilitating wearing the tight eurotrash jeans required for Apple fanboys [thanks to ARR22 for the imagery]), that decision really should be left to the lotion filled hands of the public purchasing the phones.
so I'm sure everyone's seen the lost iPhone that Gizmodo bought off a guy who found it in a bar. Is it just me or does it seem like Apple's taken a step back in their design. It looks like an old Sony Clie, see below
Still, I gotta give credit where credit is due. If it really has a 960x640 screen, that's fantastic, although the screen is smaller than the original iPhone.
If it has 80GB of internal storage space, that's fantastic, but it you still can't plug in the phone to a usb port and use it as a flash drive, I feel that its utility is worthless. Not everything we want on our phone is on iTunes.
It's still 3G...but since we're only expecting one network with 4G this year, what can you do.
It probably has a better camera, and we won't know if it has HD recording capability yet, but right now, the Sprint EVO still looks like the phone to beat. Unfortunately, for the mindless public that sucks the proverbial nuts of Steve Jobs, any subpar device from Apple is the best (see iPad) and there is a huge possibility that with the release of the iPhone and the HTC Evo both in June that the Evo will get overlooked.
Only time will tell to see how effective Sprint's campaign will be. I only hope that it can match the wildly successful annoyingly smug ads the tools at Apple will put out.
Apple loves keeping all their releases a big secret so the wow factor never gets diluted. The problem is that unlike google and microsoft, they don't send their products to beta testers so they're not able to iron out works. For instance, not figuring out that the iPad's wifi wasn't working was a huge blunder, considering the iPad doesn't have any connectivity ports for any other form of internet access (or anything else really, except a proprietary jack for docks and other licensed accessories).
The same thing goes for their peripherals. Now that Apple fans have had adequate time to play with their magic mice, people are starting to realize one of the great truths in the world: choosing something because it looks cool may end up f*cking you in the pooper.
No doubt the Magic Mouse looks cool, even if it has a super douchey name. It looks like the fingernail of some magical fairytale creature that enjoys selling its testicles for computer hardware. But even if it looks cool, apparently it's been causing significant injury to limp-wristed apple fans' limp wrists. It's so un-ergonomic that someone has already designed an orthopedic extension for the Magic Mouse. Check out the video below:
One would think that when Apple designs something that needs to be held in the hand every single second it's being used, they would design it with ergonomics as high priority.
Nope. As usual, they only think about the form factor. It makes about as much sense as using a pineapple for a bicycle seat. It may look cool, but it'll tear you a new one.
For those of you with a T-mobile HD2 or updated Sprint Touch Pro 2 with the official Windows mobile 6.5 Rom, or anyone with a unlocked phone running a custom ROM with WM 6.5 and Sense 2.5, there is a new modification that lets you customize your manila homescreen in nearly any way you want. Cookie from xda-developers latest version is pretty bug-free, allows drag and drop customization and a whole host of other features.
It comes with several different clocks, including analog ones with second hands, the ability to show as many items on your calendar as you want, and the ability to open which ever program you want when you click on appointments, clocks, alarms. You can also put as many shortcuts or contacts on the home page In addition, you can now use the default windows lock screen, or the HD2 or HD mini lock screen.
In addition it's compatible with HDWall, if you'd like to have backgrounds on all tabs of manila.
If you had the old HTC Touch and you loved HTC Home, this is a new version that combines the simplicity of the old interface, with the customization of present technology.
Check out the video if you want a nice demonstration of all the features, courtesy of Pocketnow.com.
The Facebook Fail blog failbook.com, has caught another Apple fanboy in the typical throes of self-aggrandizing fervor. It's great that one of his friends was frank enough to call him out on it. Now to tell the rest of the Apple fans.
Well, if you think my blog is angry, you haven't read the blog of one of my philosophical brothers. Heck, even the name of his website makes mine look terribly tame and impotent. Well, to each his own.
Head on over to his site to see how visceral a reaction a lame company like Apple can evoke.
Well, sad news, truly sad news. The successful group of advertisements featuring Justin Long and John Hodgman is coming to an end. As an homage to puffery and misleading advertising, I thought I'd post a piece that I think, describes my feelings, albeit slightly more impartially than I can be.
Originally published in Slate Magazine in 2006, this article helps highlight why these ads were so effective in America: There's a lot of f#$king dumb#sses in America. Enjoy. (Read link)
Looks like Steve Jobs is finally updating the iPhone OS to the year 2000. With the new OS 4, we finally get some integral features that my 2004 HP iPaq running windows mobile 5 had. Check out these fantastic "new" features!
1. multitasking - finally, but no task manager, since Jobs doesn't believe in them 2. background music such as pandora - wow! now he can listen to music as does his laundry in the town river. 3. app folders for sorting apps! - oh my god, a little bit of customization, although, to be honest, this is technically the minimum required to say something is customizable.
Basically, with the exception of multitasking, which is not true multitasking since like Windows 7 it saves the program in an off memory state and resumes when you go back to it, iPhone OS 4 now allows you to do what my Palm Pilot did in 1998.
Keep coming with the breakthroughs Mr. Job...welcome to the early years of the 21st century!
Rumor has it Verizon will be launching the HTC Incredible pretty soon. It's swirling in rumors right now. Reports are that it will have 6-8GB of onboard memory with an optional expansion slot for 32 more, an 8 mp camera, and a 3.7-4 inch AMOLED display. Definitely stuff that would compare to the EVO, except that the EVO has 4G.
Let's see how far behind the 4th generation iPhone (which is unlikely to be 4G) is going to be behind these phones. The prospect of it having a touch sensitive backside doesn't seem that appealing to me, maybe because my own backside is pretty touch sensitive.
Engadget's posting that the iPad is suffering from a handful of problems (link) such as poor wifi, overheating, problems with pdf files, unexplained crashes, etc. They've even posted a poll, which at the time of this posting shows that 68% of people responding don't have an iPad, but they still have issues with it. Warms my soul...
UPDATE: Apparently Apple has confirmed that the iPad loses connectivity with certain dual-band WIFI routers (link) Thanks, Engadget
Thanks to rorytmeadows (link)from xda-developers.com for the image.
My friend relayed me this recent story. Seems he was at a grocery store where he ran into a new iPad owner. In typical Apple fanboy fashion, he had no idea what he was talking about. I'll let him tell the story in his own words:
"I have a great iPad story. This guy I started talking to in the grocery store was a complete idiot. Flashing his ipad around thinking he is hot shit.
I have to hand it to Mac advertising. They have brainwashed consumers -- it is truly unbelievable. Even in this economy, people are buying these things without any clue about what they do.
He actually told me, 'Mac is amazing, nobody has ever made a computer with a touch screen!'"
Thanks, Omesh. Blind faith in Steve Jobs...his followers are just a bit more blind than the Moonies.
On the day of the iPad release, I thought nothing would be better than to showcase the one device that is not only going to hurt Apple, the iPhone, iPhone3G and the iPhone3GS, but also the one device that will castrate their successor, the purported iPhoneHD. While we don't know much about the iPhoneHD, we do know a lot about the new Sprint HTC Evo 4G, which was announced a little over a week ago, and it definitely caught Apple with their pants down. It's going to be hard to beat this phone. Check out this hands on video from Engadget! And check out these specs: PRODUCTIVITY
* 3G/4G capability * Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ QSD8650 (1GHz) processor * 4.3” capacitive display with pinch-to-zoom and tactile feedback * World-class HTML browser – bandwidth and quality that rival that of netbooks * Android 2.1, with access to more than 30,000 apps on Android Market * GoogleTM mobile services including Google SearchTM, Google MapsTM, Google TalkTM, GmailTM, YouTubeTM , and syncs with Google CalendarTM * Access to Google Goggles™ to search with pictures instead of words * Sprint Navigation, with turn-by-turn driving directions and 3D maps * Updated HTC Sense, award-winning user experience, which includes Friend Stream to integrate Facebook, Twitter and more into a single flow of updates * Visual voicemail * Messaging – personal and business email, IM and text messaging * 3G/4G Mobile Hotspot capability – connects up to eight Wi-Fi enabled devices * 4G data speeds (WiMAX) – peak download speeds of more than 10 Mbps; peak upload speeds of 1 Mbps; average download speeds of 3-6 Mbps. * 3G data speeds (EVDO Rev A.) – peak download speeds of up to 3.1 Mbps; peak upload speeds of 1.8 Mbps; average download speeds of 600 kbps-1.4 Mbps.
ENTERTAINMENT
* 8MP autofocus camera with dual LED flash and 1.3MP front-facing camera * High-quality video streaming and downloads at 3G and 4G data speeds * Capture and share HD-quality video (720p) from your phone * Output pictures, slides and videos in HD quality (720p) via HDMI cable (sold separately) * Live video sharing with Qik * Built-in kickstand for hands-free viewing * Media player with 3.5mm stereo headset jack * FM radio and Amazon MP3 store * Sprint applications including Sprint TV® and NASCAR Sprint Cup Mobile(SM) * Bluetooth® 2.1 with A2DP Stereo and EDR * Built-in WiFi®: 802.11 b/g * Digital compass, G-Sensor, proximity sensor, light sensor, GPS * Expandable memory: 8GB microSD card included; supports up to 32GB
One of my friend's fiancee was talking to me about the iPhone, and I could not believe the words that oozed out of her mouth: "I don't think I could live without my iPhone because I can't live without Google Maps!"
I think this statement sums up the rampant psyche of many Apple users. In particular, the notion that the iPhone and Macs can do everything, and that every other phone or computer is incapable of doing anything. This is a notion that, in my opinion, is perpetuated by the infamous iPhone slogan, "Only...on the iPhone," that would follow the now wonderfully-abused-by-Verizon-phrase "There's an app for that".
So I've decided to list some things that annoy me about uneducated, computer-illiterate fans of Apple. Let me know if you know of anything else I've forgotten. I'll continue the list in future blog entries.
1. "I can't live without my Google maps!" Let's start with the aforementioned scenario. I don't understand how people come to believe something as totally incorrect as this statement. At the instant that the first iPhone was released, there were already about 15,000 Windows Mobile apps and 50,000 standard Palm OS apps available.
But for some reason, people still believe the iPhone is the only phone that can accomplish anything. In fact, Google Maps for Mobile was released in 2006 for all java-capable phones, and the iPhone wasn't even announced until January 2007!
I blame Apple and their ads. Read the words taken from a 2009 iPhone ad, "If you want to find snow conditions on the mountain, there's an app for that...and if you want to check how many calories are in your lunch, there's an app for that...only, on the iPhone." I'm not sure how Apple gets away with this blatant misdirection, but there are apps for that on the Palm, Android and Windows mobile platforms. 2. "The one thing that is definitely better about my PowerBook than my old PC, is that when you open the lid, it starts instantaneously..." I have heard this from 3 separate people...idiots. No offense to my friends, but they are idiots when it comes to computers. All I do is change the settings on their PCs from hibernate to suspend, and the response is always the same: "Oh, who knew?" Drives me insane!
As brought to us by Reuters (link), Taiwan's Elan is suing Apple over infringement of two patents, both pertaining to the use of a touch screen to detect the position of fingers, and multitouch.
This is particularly amusing because it happens in the wake of the recent suit by Apple against Taiwan's HTC for infringement of 20 patents, including multitouch (link). We know that Nokia has also filed a suit against Apple with Apple countersuing.
This is just another example of Apple trying to say that they've innovated everything, which I'll show more examples of in a future post.
We all know what's really motivating the HTC suit. If it was really about Multitouch, Apple would have sued Palm as well, but there are two reasons they haven't. 1. Palm owns patents on so many things, including such basic things as devices that have calendars and alert you with new notifications if there are events. 2. Apple is suing Google through HTC. By taking out a less defended outlet for Android, Apple doesn't have take on Google directly.
Let's hope the ITC listens to reason and drops HTC's complaint regarding ridiculously broad patents that cover almost all portable electronic devices.
As this is my first post, I think I should first explain why I've started this blog. When I was young, I had nothing against Apple or their products. In fact, I started out by learning about computers and programming in basic on the Apple IIe, IIc and IIgs.
However, in the past few years, with Apple's recent success, I've recently become more and more irritated by Apple's misleading ads, uneducated (tech-challenged) fan base, and frankly, Steve Jobs. I blame Steve Jobs mainly because he's the CEO, and therefore, the easy scapegoat.
So I've started this blog to help clarify or at least investigate some of Apple's possibly misleading claims. Hopefully you'll get some information and news that may help you. And remember, I never promise to be fair, but I'll try my best.
I hate Apple is a blog for all that simply hate Apple, their products and their fans. Feel free to leave any comments as you see fit. Remember, I can't promise to be fair.
