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It's a Fay kind of morning

People seem to like this thing. Oy.

ANYway, I'm amused by the OMG reaction to iPhone App Store. I can only guess that these people really believed that the Handango "Fuck both the developers and customers of the application in the ass" model was the only option. As it turns out, if you make something easy to use, people use it. What A Shock.

Speaking of which, I'm still not having constant crashes on my iPhone. Really. See, that's the problem with "Widely reported problems": People don't tend to "widely report" that something is working well and is by and large, reliable. Should I post every day "Hey! My iPhone was once again problem-free?" Well, I'm not going to, so 'should' makes no difference here. The larger point is that you can't use either bug reports or lack thereof as any kind of reliable indication of well, anything. The fact that my iPhone is problem free doesn't counteract someone else's miserable time with theirs. It just means that NMD posturing aside, not all iPhones suck, not all iPhones are perfect.

Just like everything else.

Oh and Seinfeld pushing Windows? Meh, considering he's a mediocre whining comedian pushing a mediocre product created by one of the whiningest companies on the planet, (Okay, the Windows team, and the Xbox team whine like a fucking air raid siren. Want proof? Ask the Xbox team why the Wii is smoking their ass. Whine, whine, whine. Listen to the Windows teams whine about Linux and Apple. Whine, whine, whine. Thank $DEITY$ the Mac BU cowboys up as a matter of policy. But then, Microsoft did love Scoble, and Scoble's made a career out of whining. Like attracts like.) Seems reasonable to me.


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