That ’s what the Macalope frequently finds himself asking loud as he reads some of the textile he plod through every week so you do n’t have to . This week , one analyst tried to beat back a busload of investors over the edge of Contrarian Gulch . Meanwhile , an InfoWorld writer want you to shed a tear for how ill Microsoft has been treated . And in conclusion , the Macalope has never thought “ doing the same affair over and over again and expecting a different outcome ” was a particularly good definition of crazy , but Katherine Noyes makes a pretty good case .
Now on ESPN2: Extreme contrarianism
There ’s contrarian and then there ’s “ someone get that guy wire ’s car keys ” contrarian . Here ’s hoping BTIG ’s Walter Piecyk has a designated number one wood .
APPLE GETS DOWNGRADED : BTIG Forecasts A Big Revenue Miss afterward This Year
Uh , how ’s that , Walter ?
For Piecyk , it all boils down to the iPhone . As Business Insider summarizes , Piecyk believe “ 2012 will be the yr that the wireless carriers fight back against having their tolerance always squeezed . ”
What combat are you watch , Walter ? How , exactly , are carriers think to get back into this round ? More Android phones ?
No , Piecyk believescarriers will turn to the Windows Phone steamroller .
Well , OK , crazy analyst guy . The Macalope supposes that ’s potential , if maybe a little hard than you guess . Over at Wired Christina Bonnington , having recentlypimped sales of Samsung ’s Galaxy Note , require you to know thatsales of the Nokia Lumia 900 are already topnotch - duper !
Initial sales agreement indicators for the Lumia 900 , Nokia ’s most important U.S. Windows Phone to day of the month , are establish that the handset is off to a respectable start despite the fact the phone establish on Easter Sunday , a day when most AT&T storehouse were closed .
Wait , if most of the retail location were close up until the 24-hour interval you write this piece , then how can you say ?
Read more …
The Lumia 900 rose to the top of Amazon ’s smartphone rankings today , overreach out favorites like the Droid Razr Maxx , the antecedently most popular phone , and the Samsung Galaxy Nexus . As of press clip , the black Lumia 900 model holds the number one dapple , and the cyan example holds the number two daub . Yesterday , the French telephone debut in fifth station on the site .
The exact sales numbers that move the 900 to the top of Amazon ’s drawing card board are n’t do it at this time .
So … just to be clear , in your slice claiming that sales of the Lumia 900 are “ hopeful , ” you let in you have no idea how well it ’s sell .
Well , maybe the Lumia 900 will sell well and change the destiny of Windows Phone , magically returning the carriers to the crapper of whatever the country is inGame Of Thrones — face , the Macalope ’s been signify to watch it , he ’s just a little busy and he does n’t get HBO , OK ?
Heck , you could get a Lumia 900 for innocent ! confessedly because ofa hemipterous insect that shuts off cellular datum after a reboot or closure . You were n’t planning on using the “ smart ” part of your smartphone anyway , were you ?
It seems odd than an psychoanalyst would ignore all the evidence pointing to the fact thatpeople want iPhones(which , incidentally , Amazon does not betray through its own wireless store , so it does n’t appear in its rankings).Carriers like T - Mobile , which do n’t have the iPhone , have been attend their users take flight like hipster rats from a sink ship to a good ship , a ship that has the best - trade smartphone .
Apple ’s third - quarter results will be out in July . The Macalope will set himself a tickler to remind him to come back to review this prodigy then .
Hee - hee !
Oops . improper form of tickler file .
Orisit ?
( Yes , it is . )
The Redmond waaaaaambulance
InfoWorld ’s J. Peter Bruzzese wants people toleeeeeave Microsoft ALOOOOOOONE !
I ’ve noticed an unfair , ongoing trend : If Microsoft does something a niggling off , it gets bashed into the dry land for it . But if Google , Facebook , or Apple ( all three of which can be categorized , like Microsoft , as The Man in their own right ) missteps , it generally get soft reprimands and even plump for from the medium and those drinking the Kool - Aid .
That must be a neat trick , since wassail the Kool - Aid really kill you .
Seriously , the great unwashed , read a history book — or evenWikipedia — before you go down back on a trite , overdrive metaphor .
One wonders if Bruzzese has read some of thefawning coverageMicrosoft has receive forproducts it has n’t even shipped yetand which wo n’t transport for month . badly , that stuff ’s so unfermented it ’ll give you diabetes .
Case in gunpoint is the illustrious iPhone 4 transmitting aerial effect ( affectionately termed “ antennagate ” ) , where take for the iPhone 4 in a certain way would interfere with the cellular signaling . Then - CEO Steve Jobs say , “ Hold it otherwise , ” and everyone said , “ Oh , it ’s not a design flaw , we are simply not keep it properly . ”
Wha - what?!That’swhat people said ? Were you in some variety of sensory privation tank during the summertime of 2010 ? It is not hyperbole to say the streets literally ran red with hyperbole !
Actually , that ’s ridiculous . Of of course it is . But there was still a lot of hyperbole .
If Bruzzese is peach about iPhone 4 buyers , though , what they decided was that the flaw , while not idealistic , was still overbalance by the other benefits of the speech sound . And if he ’s talk about pundits , the Macalope caneasily betoken you to oneswhoflew off the hold about it .
But it sure is easier to make a point when you just argue against front ! And they sure enough do glow jolly , do n’t they ?
Take the brouhaha over the “ Smoked by Windows Phone ” arguing as another object lesson where a very tiny matter is blown up to huge proportions simply because it is link to Microsoft . …
… One guy wire at one computer storage won the challenge using his Galaxy Nexus by displaying the weather of two unlike cities quicker than the Windows Phone did . The stock lay claim he had to show two dissimilar metropolis in two different states , and he and the blogosphere cried nasty . The guy was eventually offered a new laptop computer and smartphone as an apology .
Yeah , afterpeople made a big deal about it . Does Bruzzese not understand campaign and burden ? Is that the problem here ?
This is a simple case of storage employees not knowing what to do and create a bad call …
Now who ’s make excuses ? The guy succeed and they deny to honor the contest . That ’s not “ not knowing what to do , ” that ’s knowing what they should do but not doing it .
If Microsoft bidding to corrupt patents , it ’s a patent of invention trolling , but if Google does it , it ’s protecting the great open reference Android OS .
Well , not the way the Macalope tells it , that ’s for trusted . Hey , if anything Microsoft has get a peck of living from Apple rooter late . That matter where they ’re set out $ 15 for every Android phone sold ? Brilliant !
I ’m not saying you ’re mistaken to praise other companies about their product . But when it come to product flaw or any wrongdoing ( include privacy issues that should worry us all ) , they should be treated every bit . Microsoft is not treated evenly .
Possibly Bruzzese just does n’t keep up with the coverage of Apple . The Macalope would contend that it ’s well more unfair than what Microsoft has gotten of recent , but sane people can disagree about that .
What they ca n’t do is just make matter up .
Saturday Special: She’s baaaaaack!
The Macalope really reckon we had accomplished something . He thought that , working together , we had sufficiently affect PCWorld ’s Katherine Noyes into thinking carefully before publish about Apple again .
The Macalope is sorry to say that that is apparently not the case .
Before we get pop here , the horny one want to excuse to Linux users for take a few flash gibe at them . The Macalope really has nothing against Linux . It ’s just that Noyes ’s shtick is really get tiresome .
“ ‘ Flashback ’ Mac Malware : One More Reason to Switch to Linux ”
… mac have long been billed by many as the secure alternative for those wary of the near - constant malware flak on Windows .
Then , last yr , we had MacDefender . Now there ’s Flashback . It ’s starting to look like Apple ’s “ walled garden ” is n’t as safe as many thought it was .
Katherine , Katherine , Katherine , KATHERINE . We’vecovered this material already ! The Macalope is very hurt that after all the time and forethought he guide to write responses to your articles you have n’t read them cautiously and taken them to heart . Very hurt .
Once again , though , the “ walled garden , ” as citizenry call it , is iOS , not OS X. How , exactly , is OS X walled ? Anyone can evolve for it . you’re able to even scarper janky open - source apps in X11 ! It ’s true ! you may attend it up !
But all this should fathom familiar , because the Macalope ’s been evidence you this stufffor over a year .
No platform under the sun is perfectly strong , but it looks like Linux is the only big desktop platform left that ’s still stand relatively warm .
While Flashback was mainly get at Macs , Kaspersky Labs found thatone pct of the machines infect were running Linux or FreeBSD . Which , given the relative proportion of installed Linux machines , is what ? All of them ?
( Zzzzzzzzzing ! )
permit ’s just call up that Noyes spent a clustering of time telling people thatAndroid would be more secure than iOSbecause it ’s base on Linux and LINUX IS SO AWESOME IT ’S THE BESTEST EVER YOU GUYS . Unlike Linux on the background , Android took off andso did Android malware , rip up Noyes ’s entire argument about the inherent Linux security measures advantage . But dope springs everlasting and she maintain trotting it out over and over again .
If Linux does have an advantage it ’s because of its smaller installed base , just like the one Apple has savour in the past . Well , and the fact that Linux exploiter do n’t have credit rating card because they live in a post - capitalist , barter - economy utopia .
There have been onslaught on Linux over the year , of course , but for a issue of reasons they typically do n’t have much of an upshot .
On Katherine ’s header .
Even better , though , is that Linux is so diverse , so drug user are n’t all on a single , common operating organisation — instead , they ’re on many , many clear-cut distributions . That makes it much hard for a malware Lord to find a worthwhile segment to place .
And make no other problems at all . THE END .
In short , Macs may have their advantages for a segment of drug user out there …
A much big section .
… but Linux is better on more than a few primal features .
It ’s funny that users do n’t seem to recollect that . It ’s credibly because ofmarketing .
Ugh , look , we ’ve been through this over and over again , but you like Linux . We get that . We ’re happy for you ! We really are ! But there are very real reasons — like usability and design and professional software extract and many , many others — why we opt the Mac and would rather fall face - first into a swimming pond full of deer ticks than switch to Linux . Why ca n’t you accept that ?
Or not accept it and just quit babble about Apple ? That work for us , too .
