There are some days when the Macalope feels it would be more fun to make out withactual trollsthan the Internet variety . Business Insider ’s Henry Blodget gets a twofer this week . First , he attain like Prince and says “ Oh , no , have ’s go cray - ezed ! ” about iPhone trailing . Then he ’s back on the iPhone ’s market portion being “ dead in the piddle . ” Never fear , though . The Macalope will cleanse your palate from the saturnine discernment of tough Blodget , as a former object of his antlers make good .
WE’RE MILDLY UPSET AND IF YOU CAN FIX IT SOON THAT’D BE GREAT!
Henry Blodget wants you toget up and go to your window and shoutabout a glitch !
IT ’S OFFICIAL : Apple Has Brainwashed The Whole Country — How Else To Explain The Lack Of Outrage Over Apple ’s Secret Location Tracking ?
Well , you’reclearly outraged , so there ’s that . Then there’sa lawsuitand there are on the face of it going to behearings . That ’s not enough ? What ’s going to satisfy you , Henry ? Flipping tables ? Or do we need to torch some convenience stores ?
Please explain , with a straight face , how that could possibly be a “ mistake . ”
With a straight facial expression ? When you ’re being so ridiculous ? The Macalope ’s not sure that ’s potential .
Well , then , Apple should already have apologized profusely , explained that the engineer has now been summarily dismissed , and offered a software update that eliminate the tracking system forever .
Ha - ha ! Have you meet Apple ? “ Apologize profusely ” ! Ahhh , that ’s a good one . Anyway , what the company has doneis to explain the topic and promise a mess soon .
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If this had fit a pattern , it might have been more concerning . But it did n’t .
Unlike Blodget , PCWorld ’s Tony Bradley is get it voiceless to manage that much .
The Apocalypse that Apple Io devices track your location is not really intelligence , it ’s not singular to Apple , and the information gathered does n’t really have the inauspicious Big Brother implications it might suggest .
Wait , Henry , are you saying Tony Bradley , who made the Macalope’sFools of the Year Junior Varsity Squad , was brainwashed , too ? OH , MY GOD , HOW FAR DOES THIS GO ?
Dumb in the water
First , an apologia . The Macalopereallydidn’t want to talk about marketplace part again this week . gravely , how many times do we have to indicate out that , despite the protestations of silly pundits far and wide , there ’s considerably more evidence that iPhone - versus - Android is not the same as Mac - versus - Windows ? ( A war that , we may cue , isnot even over yet . )
The good newsworthiness , however , is thatthiswill be the last Henry Blodget - write piece about the iPhone and Android ’s grocery store share that the Macalope will ever associate to , because it ’s become clearhe ’s just trolling .
The Android amplification thing because technology weapons platform market incline to standardize around a unmarried prevalent weapons platform ( see Windows in PCs , Facebook in societal , Google in search ) .
So , Blodget is not only content to repeat the same arguments , but — despite the heel counter - arguments many have made — he ’s content to repeat themverbatim .
At least he does finally address the fact that the only real concern — that developer will stop writing software for iOS — hasn’t materialise ( in fact , iOS continues to be the favored platform ) . But he only does so parenthetically . Literally .
( This has not happened yet . Developers are sure gearing up to develop for Android , but most say that they evolve for the iPhone first . And Apple ’s app distribution and payment mechanism is still far superior to Android ’s . But lots more developer now develop for Android than they did two years ago . )
Hey , guess what , Henry ! scads more the great unwashed own iPhones than they did two years ago , too !
Blodget ’s sack have no sense . Hismain argumentis that :
But when it ’s clear that number one is n’t happen , he says it does n’t count — as long as Android ’s increase the number of developers . Well , then why does n’t it weigh that Apple ’s increasing the routine of phonesitsells and still maintaining its market share ?
Well , the cause is bladdity blaggy blooga THE IPHONE ’S DEAD IN THE water supply .
Blodget is , apparently , just become to keep writing the same slice over and over and over again , no matter what . For example , the Macalope is near certain that NPD ’s resultsshowing the iPhone taking marketplace part from Android in the U.S.will have no effect on Blodget ’s zombi argument .
The Android OS lost ground for the first fourth dimension since Q2 2009 , fall to 50 percent of smartphone unit sales in Q1 2011 compared to 53 percent in the prior one-quarter . Malus pumila iOS ploughshare climb up 9 share points to constitute 28 percent of smartphone unit sales .
NowBlodget saysthat “ dead in the body of water ” means year - over - year . Which is convenient , because Android ’s base a year ago was much smaller than that of the iPhone — plus , it gives him another year to keep reposting the same bombast .
Is Android ’s meteoric growth slow ? Is the iPhone pick up steam with the inclusion of Verizon , and will it find fault up a minuscule more steam with the white iPhone ? heavily to say yet . What ’s easy to say is that , at this microscope stage of the secret plan , anyone who thinks they can adjudge “ IT ’S OFFICIAL ” that the iPhone is doomed to irrelevancy is not concerned in providing serious psychoanalysis .
Now let us never speak of Henry Blodget ’s grocery share jackassery again .
Most improved
But all is not sour in the land of silly punditry ! For lo , the Macalope brings you a story of one wacky pundit who has travel the route to buyback !
It was n’t that long ago that the Macalope used to have to give his clock time to criticize downthe most ridiculous argumentsfrom ZDNet ’s Adrian Kingsley - Hughes .
But lately he ’s been serious and now Kingsley - Hughes has written a overbold piece onthe trouble with Android tablet .
The problem is that they ’re seen as disposable ware . By this I do n’t intend that they ’re single - use or anything as environmentally inimical as that , but rather than manufacturers see the product as land up as presently as it has been sell and see slight note value in supporting it with regular software updates ( at least anything beyond bug fix ) . After all , why should they ? They ’ve got your money and the only means they ’re going to get more money is to deal you a new product .
This is an sharp item that might be lost on your average consumer going into the store , but it really keep down the value of an Android pad of paper . It also seems that while carriers do eventually deliver software update for Android phones , they ’re rolling their eyes and sigh more than a 13 - twelvemonth - old being force to mop the lawn .
“ Pff . Fine . Here ’s your stoopid update . Pff . Sheesh . Gawd . So stoopid . ”
Adrian gives quotation where it ’s due for why this software update is even a thing .
The the true is that it was the iPhone that lead us to expect to see software updates for smartphones . Apple deepen that .
Indeed .
Of of course , if every silly learned person improves their performance like Adrian has , the Macalope ’s going to be out of a job . Fortunately most of them are preternaturally incompetent of that .
