It was just one letdown after another this week ! Wired pulls an exciting reveal of the finder of drop off iPhones , but then he fails to seek to make this into a First Amendment issue . Not one buttwo“iPad killers ” get polish off in a deathly game of “ kill or be killed ” and Adobe ’s employee dead go mom when Steve Jobs speaks .
What happened to you, man? You used to stand for something!
The cryptic case of the escape iPhone is make a motion faster thana conveyor belt full of chocolates that Lucy just ca n’t keep up with ! ( Oh , Lucy ! Will you ever learn ? )
The knees of journalist and First Amendment - rooter - fabrication writers were exercise hard this workweek as they jerked reflexively to the defense of gadget blog Gizmodo . Few hitch hard and with less understanding of the issues thanSlate ’s Tim Wu . Over and over again , Wu sound off that Gizmodo , the publisher of the information about the iPhone prototype , should not be punish . Not once does he say what should be done about Gizmodo , the purchasers of allegedly stolen property .
And that ’s the Macalope ’s problem with the meter reading of the situation by every single supporter of Gizmodo , including theElectronic Frontier Foundation . As he of the browned furnoted on Twitter , he was not mindful that journalist are holy , heavenly creatures to whom our earthly laws do not apply . If this reallyishow our sound system work , then there seems to be a terrible loophole for anyone who sticks an index circuit card that order “ PRESS ” into his or her fedora .
Now Wired hasidentified the marketer of the iPhonewho read he ’s really , really sorry he never really try on to return the iPhone to Apple , but he like orphans and kittens andhe ca n’t do jail time , man , he ca n’t do it ! Pretty guy wire like him get traded like cigarettes !
No , no , no ! Cut , cut , curve !
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Dude , you ’re doing it awry ! This is your 15 min ! You ’re conjecture to be standing on a soap box , going on and on about the First Amendment and how this sound action creates a scarey force onsupposed journalists who want to buy slip holding to increase page views !
It ’s almost as if the guy feel like he did something untimely . But that ca n’t be the fount , of form . How lightheaded . The First Amendment nullifies felony !
The Macalope ’s not sure this instance rises to the level of police involvement we generally appropriate for spies , terrorist , and pedophiles . But at the same time , he ’d better not hear anyone from the EFF ever complain about want of police interest when someone break into their house and slip their Linux netbook .
After all , the stealer might be a journalist .
And then there were still zero
It was just a few weeks ago the Macalope highlighted the iPad ’s worthy contender ( disclaimer : actual worth not included ) and already the landscape has shifted .
This hebdomad come news that Microsofthas cancelled the Courier , the pad of paper as mythical as the horny one himself . The Macalope wonders how one goes about set off a serial of concept video recording , but if anyone could do it , it would be Microsoft .
Meanwhile , word on the reasonably undependable street is thatHP has killed the Windows 7 - based iPad - killing tabletthat Steve Ballmer announced at CES in January . Presumably HP has state Microsoft it ’s got a new bicycle now — to wit , Palm ’s webOS — and it ’s gon na ride it all the way into town to buy a Coke . And not one of those stinking eminent - fructose corn syrup - based ones , either ! A unfeigned Mexican Coke with tangible sugar !
The Macalope in reality looks forward to seeing the effect of that drive — Palm ’s webOS is a much better primed for a tablet than Windows 7 . He also hop that the canceling of Courier means a Windows Phone 7 - based tablet might be in the works , because Microsoft really demand a more consistent approach path to build up a peregrine program . Casual proofreader of his workplace may not realise this , but the Macalope actuallywantsthere to be competition to the iPad . Competition is well !
And right now , there is n’t any .
Who’s a Chatty Cathy?
blank out societal media ! All the activeness this twelvemonth is in e-mail Steve Jobs ! Everyone ’s doing it ! It ’s hotter than Twitter and comes witha build up - in monetization dodging ! Exclamation mark !
The Macalope ’s not certain what they put in Steve ’s bean curd , but he ’s bray out electronic mail faster than you’re able to sayInbox Zero . Steve ’s most recent missive was tosomeone who wonderedif theheavy iPhone and iPad vehemence for Apple ’s Worldwide Developers Conferencemeant the fellowship was de - emphasise Mac type O ontogenesis . Steve ’s response ?
No .
Sent from my iPhone
Oh , good .
Wait,“Sent from my iPhone”?Is that some variety of coded message ? ! STEVE , COME BACK !
Whatever the instance , there ’s nothing coded in Jobs’sThoughts On Flash . Whoo - ee . Adobe seems to have add up to its senses and gone witha corporate - level responsewhile the formerly very opinionatedLee BrimelowandJohn Dowdellseem to have of a sudden lost their voices on the subject . waitress , what happen to “ let your employee verbalise ” and “ put some tegument in the game ” ? !
Do you intend to tell the Macalope that was just posturing ?
Oh , Adobe .
