Apple Store, Faked

A broad who calls herself, "BirdAbroad" writes about a fake Apple store situated in Kunming, China and provides photographic proof. Read the comments, especially the gem from sudeep on July 20, 2011 at 10:39 am.

http://birdabroad.wordpress.com/2011/07/20/are-you-listening-steve-jobs/

My Blackberry Is Not Working! - The One Ronnie, Preview - BBC One

British humour is an acquired taste but I like it. Don't hate.

Apple to acquire Netflix, Sony... and the World?!

   Apple is sitting on a cash hoard of over $50 billion dollars. That's about $5 after being converted into yen. Anywho, stories have been released lately speculating that Apple's going to be using some of that cash to make a major acquisition. This morning, the name "Sony" was mentioned and then "Netflix." What's next? IBM? Microsoft? Whirlpool? Yep, Whirlpool, the company that makes dishwashers. "That's Silly with a capital "S"," you say but no sillier than the guys who think that Apple's going to be making a play for (of all things) Sony. The Netflix possibility is a joke which I won't even consider.

   Okay, back to Sony. There is no way Apple will ever target Sony for acquisition. Apple has a corporate culture that is sort of like an closed enclave of likeminded warriors. Jobs is the messianic leader of these warriors and to attempt to integrate Sony's culture with Apple's culture is unthinkable. Repeat: unthinkable. It ain't gonna happen so I won't think about it any more. The fools who are spending time thinking about it are wasting their time. That's all. 

Yep, Apple Killed The CD Today

^^ Another dumb article alert, this time courtesy of TechCrunch. And I quote:

"Stop. Take a deep breath. Before my headline gets you all worked up, consider what I’m saying here. The CD and other optical discs, like DVDs and Blu-rays, are obviously going to live on for a while as a way to transport media. But make no mistake that today, with two unveilings, Apple has effectively sealed the fate of the optical disc in the computer industry. Soon, it will go the way of the floppy disk."

   What the writer is referring to is the unveiling today of the Mac App Store and Apple's decision to include a slim USB drive which contains the reinstallation files for the MacBook Air. Yep, these two moves by Apple has allowed the writer "MG Siegler" to declare that Apple has rung the death knell of the optical disc and pounded the nail into the coffin to boot

   Is it me or do these Apple fanboys attribute every major trend in the modern world to Apple? According to the fanboys, Jobs walks on water and human civilization wouldn't be where it is today if Apple had never been born out of that little garage in Los Altos. I love my iPhone and iPad but c'mon now with the vapid adulation. Firstly, the move to online software distribution has been going on since the first dot-com boom when Digital River was in my portfolio. Secondly, I guess the writer has never heard of Valve or Steam. No, MG Siegler, Apple didn't cause the revolution... they're just caught up in this big wave called evolution and are a part of it. Feh.